“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is a very interesting poem about the narrator who comes to a fork in the road. The underlying meaning of “The Road Not Taken” is the decisions people must make on the “road” of life and the regret of what can come from choosing the wrong “road”. “The Road Not Taken” has many meaningful metaphors if the reader studies the poem carefully. Frost masterfully crafts the poem in a way that teaches the reader the importance of decisions made in life. The literal theme of the poem is that the narrator is traveling in the fall when he comes to a fork in the road. The narrator must decide which path to take. The two roads are worn about equally, making the decision more difficult. The narrator knows that he will most likely never return to the crossroads again. The narrator chooses the second path. The narrator many years later comes to a fork in the road and chooses "the one less traveled" and "made a difference." The underlying theme of the poem is that life is a road and the crossroads is a decision. in life. The narrator...