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i was wondering if someone could tell me what these two parts of the poem mean!? it would be a great help thank you :)
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!. 15
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
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the first paragraph says that in the morning both paths are the same and they are not traveled!. he says he is not going to use the 1st path and he keeps it for some other time, but doesnt think he will ever come back
he then says he is telling this story far away from this place with a sigh!. there were two roads that he could have taken but he took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference for him!.
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it means, to me, that the narrator of the poem had two roads in his life, one that everybody seemed to take and one that nobody seemed to make he doesn't know where they will take him
he realized that he had one choice to make, and that once he made that choice he could not go back
so he took the one that people did not take, you don't know if the one he took was the best, just that it 'made all the difference'
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1st stanza
he comes up with the idea of saving the first one, perhaps the most travelled by for another day but then he sees that he’s most likely never going to return, thus will never get a chance to travel the most travelled road!.
2nd stanza
the traveller is thinking about the past decisions he made, and realizes that the road he took made all differences!.
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