The title of this poem is significant to its meaning and content. Indeed, the mood forks similar to the road described in the poem. The poem’s mood, therefore, can be considered to reflect the narrator looking back with pride because he made the right choice in life or as a regretful recounting of the choices made by the narrator (Frost, 2015). Generally, the mood in this poem reflects the narrator’s emotional state. However, the mood is also ambiguous which means that different readers could view this poem as either regretful or nostalgic. The mood in ‘The Road Not Taken’ is nostalgic as the speaker looks back with sentimental emotions on his past. By taking the road less traveled, the narrator implies that he chose not to conform to society’s expectations. Since the narrator cannot simultaneously choose both options, he or she agonizes about which choice will be more meaningful to his life in the long term. Further, the speaker can see two roads in his mind, which represents the two options that he must choose from to continue with the journey of life. The setting symbolizes the mind of the speaker with the ‘yellow wood’ implying that the speaker is in the later stages of his life (Frost, 2015). In addition, the poem is set in the morning where the leaves were still fresh on both paths and had not been trodden (Frost, 2015). These two roads in the woods confuse the poem’s narrator and there is no sign to indicate where wither path leads. In this case, the yellow wood signifies that the situation in the poem is set in early autumn as this is when leaves turn yellow. The literal setting or situation in this poem is a path inside a yellow wood that diverges or forks out into two paths. In the end, the narrator chooses the less travelled road and says that this less-convenient path over the easy path made all the difference (Frost, 2015). Further, whereas one road has been used frequently and is safer, the other road is overlaid and has not been used frequently.
The narrator is traveling through the woods and comes across a forked road, where he or she must make a choice on the road to continue travelling on.
The main theme in this poem is choice, with the poet walking on a road that splits into two directions and he must make a choice.
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