The main idea of the poem is a metaphor manifested in the '2 roads diverged in a yellow wood'. This metaphor as a poetic device is used all along the poem in almost every verse.

This poem is magic. And simple. Jura sounds right. But lets face facts Robert Frost was lonely.

The literal meaning of this poem by Robert Frost is pretty obvious. A traveller comes to a fork in the road and needs to decide which way to go to continue his journey. After much mental debate, the traveler picks the road "less traveled by." The figurative meaning is not too hidden either. The poem describes the tough choices people make when traveling the road of life. The words "sorry" and "sigh" make the tone of poem somewhat gloomy. The traveller regrets leaves the possibilities of the road not chosen behind. He realizes he probably won't pass this way again. Poetic devices: There are plenty literary devices in this poem to be discovered. One of these is antithesis. When the traveller comes to the fork in the road, he wishes he could travel both. Within the current theories of our physical world, this is a non possibility (unless he has a split personality). The traveller realizes this and immediately rejects the idea. Yet another little contradiction are two remarks in the second stanza about the road less traveled. First it's described as grassy and wanting wear, after which he turns to say the roads are actually worn about the same (perhaps the road less traveled makes travelers turn back?). Personification: All sensible people know that roads don't think, and therefore don't want anything. They can't. But the description of the road "wanting wear" is an example of personification in this poem. A road actually wanting something that a person would. However: some believe this to be incorrect and believe "wanting wear" is not a personification, but rather older English meaning "lacking". So it would be "Because it was grassy and lacked wear;".

I studied this poem at school last year and it is such a great poem ! ..I will try to write what I studied about it . in this poem Frost define the poetry that's saying one thing and meaning another , in the poem the speaker uses the metaphor of the 2 roads to say one thing while the poet uses the speaker as a metaphor to say something very different . He uses Nature to say that he is lonely and he has a difficulty in making a choice and when he will makes the choice he will be unhappy . which means that this poem is example of the pleasure of ulteriority and it's also offering double perspective on the theme of making choices one is obvious and other is hidden . The speaker tries to ride his extended metaphor too far and too hard although he sees it break down when he find no real difference between the 2 roads . Finally ( the poem is a good example of frost's ability to create ironic interplay between outer seriousness and inner humor , and it express an implied corrective to the condition that it mocks . Hope this help , I study English literature at school and you can use this website it will help you a lot .. http://www.suite101.com/world-poetry http://www.helium.com/channels/102-Literature Good luck and Enjoy poetry :) .