We tell stories and revise our memories as if decisions were made differently than they really were.
It talks about how we rewrite our own histories.
This is the most telling stanza of the poem. Stanza 4:Īnd that has made all the difference. It’s complex, this thought, because I want to pretend and kind of lie to myself (in the way that we do) that I’m not really giving up an opportunity, but rather just saving it for another time, even though I really know that time may never come. And “Oh, I kept the first for another day,” means that I, the traveler, decided to leave the other path to take another day- but it’s a little sarcastic, that line, because “I doubted if I should ever come back.” So even though I’ll probably never be back this way, I’ll pretend to myself that I’ll take that other path another day. See? They both “equally lay” with very few leaves that had been “trodden black.” That means that neither road was very well-traveled, really. “Though as for that the passing there, Had worn them really about the same,” tells the reader that the two roads are really just about the same. They’ve both been traveled equally. And this one is “grassy and wanted wear,” so at first the reader thinks it’s maybe been traveled less than the other one, right? But no. “Took the other, as just as fair” means that this road that I took is just as nice as the other one. Had worn them really about the same, What It Means:
I look as far as I can down one of the roads, but I can’t see past a certain point, so I really don’t know what lies ahead. So here I am, a lone traveler, standing at a crossroads. To where it bent in the undergrowth What It Means: The Breakdown Stanza 1: I encounter two roads
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