1Two roads diverged in a yellow woodMetaphorThe roads represent major choices in life, and the yellow wood represents the autumn of life or a period of decision.,
2And sorry I could not travel both
3And be one traveler, long I stood
4And looked down one as far as I could
5To where it bent in the undergrowth;
7Then took the other, as just as fair,
8And having perhaps the better claim,
9Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
10Though as for that the passing there
11Had worn them really about the same,
13And both that morning equally lay
14In leaves no step had trodden black.
15Oh, I kept the first for another day!
16Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
17I doubted if I should ever come back.
19I shall be telling this with a sigh
20Somewhere ages and ages hence:
21Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
22I took the one less traveled by,
23And that has made all the difference.