Daddio: 7/7/10 Blog of the Day

For today's blog of the day, I want you to read the following poem by Robert Frost called The Road Not Taken:

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, 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.

At the end of the poem, he the narrator says he took the road "less traveled by" and that it "made all the difference."  What do you think the author meant by that?  What were the things the narrator was thinking when he made his decision on which path to take?  Why did it matter if he took the path that most people took or the one "less traveled"?  What idea message was the author trying to get across to the reader in this poem?