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The poem explores the inevitable need to make choices and once a choice is made and a path in traversed on there is no returning.
Many are the instances when we are faced with the need to make a choice. We ponder over many factors. Then for various reasons that seems perfect for us, we make the selection. We decide on one course of action. Years later we look back and wonder if the choice was the right one.
Robert Frost in the first stanza explains that in the middle of a yellow wood there came a fork where the path diverged into two separate paths. The poet could see only until the paths were lost into the undergrowth.
Both the paths looked equally inviting. One of them was more grassy -which perhaps meant that it was the one that was used by very few.
But that morning both the paths lay equally fresh. Not a leaf had been blackened by a heavy foot ball. The poet makes up his mind. He chooses one of the 2 and leaves the other to be explored another day. But even he wonders whether he would ever return to try out the other one.
Even at the moment of decision he is aware that he has proceeded on a path that was not the choice of many. He is aware that this decision of his to opt for a path not much travelled by would affect his whole life. There is no hint of regret at this decision. It is stated as a mere fact of life.
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