“The Road Not Taken” is written in the first person and uses the personal pronoun “I” to personalise its meaning as an inner journey, which suggests that the reader has direct insight into the poet’s thoughts and feelings.
We are free to choose, but we do not know beforehand what we are choosing. When standing at the edge of the woods, it is not possible to clearly see what lies ahead, as the view is obstructed by trees and branches. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” is the first line in the first stanza which is a metaphor in which the poet uses the woods to represent life. Forks have symbolised the connection between free will and fate.
Paths in the woods and forks in a road are classic metaphors for the crises and decisions involved in life. The poem is an extended metaphor, he has likened the human’s age in one of its stages with two roads in the forest, and at one point one of them must be selected. Then he states that when one of the two routes is taken, it is difficult to return to the other. In the next verse the traveler realises that both roads are actually worn about the same. He stands a long time thinking both ways in all the obstacles or facilities in each of them, examines on of them carefully, and then chooses the other, because it is “grassy” and wanted wear”. It tells about the physical journey of a person travelling along a road and coming to this point. The poem is a metaphor story, tells of every human being about his age when he reaches a crossroads, he has to choose between the two routes does not know the end of each.
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