IMAGERY.
Throughout the poem, Frost uses images that could be interpreted as either quite simple and very specific, or incredibly involved and extremely general. For example, by interpreting images such as "Two roads. in a yellow wood,"" the "undergrowth-, as well as the rest of the poem, one would see a simple story:.
A young man walking down a road until he came to a point where the road forked. The man had to decide which path to take one that was very worn or one that was less traveled by. He decided to take the less traveled path and keep the rest for another day. .
Looking back on the situation, the narrator feels his decision has changed his life forever.
Another way in which the imagery of the poem could be interpreted is being presented in a very involved and general way. The paths and the fork may no longer refer to their definitions, but instead as keywords in a description of life. Through the poem, Frost is defining life as a series of decisions. Some of these decisions may, at the time, be thought of as insignificant, while others could be thought of as very significant. Frost argues that a decision's significance at the time is not really important, for any choice will change one's life. Every day, people, including the narrator of the poem, are presented with "Two roads" that diverge "in a yellow wood." These roads are not concrete or physical, but rather represent choices. The fact that one road is "grassy and wanted wear" while the other was commonly traversed shows the reader that some choices require one to choose something that is not commonly sought or to do something that is not commonly done. The total of these decisions leads people, like the reader, down a new path: a path which the narrator himself created. The narrator comes to the realization that every decision affects him when he says: .
Two roads diverged in a wood,.
And I -I took the one less traveled by,.
And that has made all the difference.
