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The literal meaning of this poem by Robert Frost is obvious. A traveler comes to a fork in the road and needs to decide which way to travel and couldn't decide on which road to take but finally chose to take the one that seemed less traveled by. The figurative theme of the poem is the crucial nature of the choice people must make on the road of life. The story took place in a yellow wood in the morning time. The tone of the poem is gloomy because the traveler laments the possibilities that the necessity of making a choice leaves unfulfilled, as we can see from the words used in the poem such as "sorry" and "sigh." The traveler regrets leaves the possibilities of the road not chosen behind. He realizes he probably will not pass this way again. When the traveler comes to the fork in the road, he wishes he could travel both. Within the current theories of our physical world, this is a non- possibility (unless he has a split personality). The traveler realizes this and immediately rejects the idea.
In "The Road Not Taken," the speakers" tone and setting help illustrate the struggle a person goes through in their lives to pick the right road to travel. It is possible to read this poem as a statement of some self-pity on the poet's part, a feeling, perhaps, that he has been cheated and misunderstood because he took an unpopular path. Frost signals the mockingly self-inflated tone of the last stanza by repeating the word "I," which rhymes - several times - with the inflated word "sigh." To support this tone, the speaker will some day, sighing, tell others that he took the unknown road when faced with a choice. At the end of the second, the speaker states that there was really not much difference in the two roads; neither had really been worn by traffic, though one had been given more wear than the other. It becomes obvious that the speaker's tone begins to change. It becomes a little more confident, not much, but definitely less confused and scared than he was earlier.
