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I don't buy it. It seems perfectly reasonable that a road taken less would be equally worn, only narrower. Everything else hinges on the initial lemma, which I find false. I've heard a lot of 'deeper' interpretations of Frost, of everything from Mending Wall to Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. I don't tend to find them convincing. I think Frost is populist, targetting populist readers, and what metaphors he does use are obvious. There's nothing wrong with that; but that's how I see his work.that the two paths “equally lay / In leaves” and “the passing there / Had worn them really about the same.”
then, the speaker will be claiming “ages and ages hence” that his decision made “all the difference” only because