Or maybe the speaker isn't being quite honest Possibly, the leaves aren't very thick, or the grass sticks up in between them. Wait, we thought one path was grassy…and now it's covered with leaves. The paths are covered with leaves, which haven't been turned black by steps crushing them. It was tough for him to recognize the real road as in the morning he was the first person to walk on the road. Here, again, the poet found both the paths looking same. Though, now that the speaker has actually walked on the second road, he or she thinks that in reality the two roads must have been more or less equally worn-in. "The passing there" refers to traffic, probably on foot just like our speaker, that may have worn the paths down. “Wanted wear” is an example of personification. The poet decided to check the other path because he found the other road to be less travelled and grassy one. The phrase could mean something like "as just as it is fair," as in proper, righteous, and equal. Combining the words "just" and "fair" in the same phrase is a play on words – both of these words have multiple meanings. But the first "as" makes the phrase a little more difficult. It's "as just as fair." Read without the first "as," this phrase is clear, if you think of fair as meaning attractive, or pretty. The speaker takes the other path, judging it to be just as good a choice as the first Then we get a tricky little phrase to describe this road. But, since he can't really predict the future, he can only see part of the path. If our speaker is, as we suspect, at a fork in the road of his life, and not at an actual road, he could be trying to peer into his future as far as he can. This is where we start to think about the metaphorical meanings of this poem. The speaker, regretting that he or she is unable to travel by both roads (since he or she is, after all, just one person , stands at the fork in the road for a long time and tries to see where one of the paths leads. The woods are yellow, which means that it probably falls and the leaves are turning yellow. Here two roads are meant two ways of life. Immediately, he realizes that as a traveller travelling both the roads is impossible. The poet while travelling on foot in the woods reaches a junction where two roads diverge. Summary Analysis and Explanation of each lines and stanza in the poem The Road Not Taken Stanza 1 Lines 1-2
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