While strolling on an harvest day in a wood where the leaves have altered to yellow, the speaker is obligated to pick between two paths that head in different directions, in the first stanza of the poem. In the second line in the first stanza the speaker said, “And sorry I could not travel both;” He felt disappointed that he wasn’t able to travel both …show more content…
For example, as the speaker tells the story he said, “I shall be telling this with a sigh;” which could be seen as a sign of expressing sadness and remorse. Furthermore, the title of the poem itself is an indication that the spokesman will have remorse that he didn’t get a chance to go back and travel the alternate footpath. The poem is titled “The Road Not Taken,”it is an implication that the speaker will always be thinking about the pathway he didn’t take. He will wonder what would have happened if he had followed the other path; if things would have turned to benefit him if he had walked down the other