Painterly worn leather boots pointing opposite ways atop a wooden signpost in a dry landscape.

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The Road Not Taken • 1915

Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker describes a choice between two paths and says that taking the less travelled one made all the difference. In these lines, the journey becomes a way of telling a life story: a remembered decision is given lasting significance through the account of what followed.

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