"I took the [road] less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
From "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Robert Frost's poem does illustrate a lovely sentiment, but he never meant for his two roads to serve as a metaphor for the rewards reaped when exploring the unknown. In fact, Frost writes in the poem that while one road is appealing, the other is "just as fair," and, as far as the number of travelers each has had, they're "really about the same."The final stanza, then, refers to the narrator's description of a choice he made earlier in life, while reflecting on it "ages and ages hence."Don't worry, you're not alone if you've been reading this poem all wrong. Even Frost's contemporaries misread "The Road Not Taken." He explained to a friend William H. Pritchard that the poem was written "about his friend Edward Thomas, who when they walked together always castigated himself for not having taken another path than the one they took."
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