The Road Not Taken - By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth



Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back



I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Question
How do lines 9-12 affect the meaning of the poem?

o-The speaker admits that the two roads were actually just one, revealing that the speaker is lying about having to make a difficult choice.


o-The speaker admits both roads were untraveled, revealing that the indecisive speaker never chose a road.
o-The speaker admits that the roads were actually similar, suggesting one choice was not clearly better than the other.