him something much different than he would have been had he chosen the other road.
The speaker at the end of the poem is reflective, contemplative, somewhat melancholy. It is as if he were a little sad and awed by the mystery of life and of how a decision made between two options which are not all that different can lead one down a road that will completely change his life. The fact that he sees himself in the future telling his story "with a sigh" (ln. 16) shows that the speaker is wistful rather than joyful imagining himself in the future reflecting back to that moment of choice at the fork in the road in the woods.
The poem is, of course, meant to be taken by the reader in much more than a literal sense. The choice is only symbolically between two roads in the woods. The choice could be between any two options---apparen
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