But then, once the decision is made and freshman year has passed, the reality hits that switching schools is a lot more complicated than it seems, and it's hard to start completely over somewhere else. The last stanzastripped of the poem’s earlier insistence that the roads are really about the samehas been hailed as a clarion call to venture off the beaten path and blaze a new trail.
He knows how "way leads on to way" – how one road can lead to another, and then another, until you end up very far from where you started.The speaker realizes that his hopes to come back and try the other path may be foolish.The speaker feels strongly about what he's saying here. With an "Oh" at the beginning and an exclamation point at the end, this line is emphatic.This is a familiar way to deal with difficult choices "you can always come back and try it again later," we think.He is rationalizing his choice of path by saying he'll come back to the one he missed later. The speaker seems like he's already regretting his decision.Or maybe the speaker isn't being quite honest. Possibly, the leaves aren't very thick, or the grass sticks up in between them. Wait, we thought one path was grassy…and now it's covered with leaves.The paths are covered with leaves, which haven't been turned black by steps crushing them.Others have used it to define a course of action or life that is not in keeping with society’s norms. A travel writer in the Straits Times in 2006 used it to evoke the adventure of lesser known destinations. It's possible that our speaker is the first to travel to this place on that day. The Road Not Taken The term the road less traveled has often meant different things for different writers.
Here, again, we hear that the paths are equal, but we find out something new, that it's morning.
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