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Question: What does the quote of this poem mean!?
Ok here's the poem its called The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black!.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if i should ever come back!.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference!.

What do you think the overall poem's message us!?
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
the poem is talking about how everyone now is making the same desicions and the same mistakes!. that only a few people make the choices that nobody else takes because they dont know what will happen if they take it!. yet knowing on to way leads on to way means that you know your making a desicion that you dont know what will happen if you make it!. like i could skip sschool not knowing if ill get cought or notWww@QuestionHome@Com

It simply means that he, knowing how the paths (way) we choose can lead on to yet more and more paths (ways), he doubts that he will ever come back to take the path that he has not chosen!. Www@QuestionHome@Com