'As far I could' suggests that there is a limit to his ability to see where this road takes him, just as he is limited with the other road as well. As in many poems, nature here takes on symbolic values as well as literal ones.įirst Road: 'I looked down one as far as I could/To where it bent in the undergrowth' The first road, the poet suggests, is only visible for a short while before it bends 'in the undergrowth' and its course is lost to him. Many of Frost's poems describe landscape of rural New England and use it to express greater truths about the poet's own perceptions of life. If it is autumn, this may also suggest that the poet's life is also coming to an end, and is symbolic for a choice made late in life.įrost's upbringing in Vermont, the landscape of which is quite clearly shown in this poem. The ambiguity in this presentation suggests that the decision can either be a beginning or the start of an ending. 'Yellow' in woods can either be autumn or it can the blossoming of woodland flowers in spring. 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood' - The immediate presentation of the woods as 'yellow' is deliberately ambiguous. On a deeper level, the poem explores decision-making, aging and a person's path through life. On a surface level, the poem narrates the experience of a man who went to the woods and had to make a decision about where to go.
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