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The Road Less Traveled 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.
The Choice
He peers down each road as far as he can, but of course the paths bend away out of sight -- just as in life we may see the immediate consequences of our actions but not the long-term effects. In the end, the narrator chooses the one which is “grassy” and “wanted wear.” in other words, the road less travelled. Reasonable enough: many people choose to blaze a trail through life, deliberately following a different and perhaps more difficult course.
This is shown in Caesar because when his wife told him not to go to court. He had two roads to travel. The easy road was to go to court and to not listen to his wife. Or the hard for him was to stay home and not go. This as you know would have saved his life for a little while longer but he decided to go the easy way with isn’t always the right way!
Caesars Choice
