Question

Which line in this excerpt from Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” best shows that the speaker made an uncommon decision?

Answer 1

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.

less one traveled by shows no one goes on that path

Answer 2

Answer:

The lines "I took the one less traveled by," shows that the speaker made an uncommon decision.

Explanation:

The speaker of the poem "The Road Not Taken" recounts the time he had gone for a walk among the woods and his decision to take the road that seem to be less traveled by other people. This decision of his has made him realize that that single decision has changed him, and he also kept wondering the "what if' of the whole decision, "what if he had chosen the other path, would that have made anything different?". So, by choosing "the one less traveled by", that decision has made all the difference.