As a result of this, no leaves on either of the paths bore any sign of being blackened by travellers’ footprints. In this stanza, the poet says that after all his calculations as to which path was more often taken, he saw that on the same day as he was walking along that forest trail no other traveller had reached that junction, and he was the first to do so. The poet concluded that every person passing through either of the paths must have caused the grass beneath his feet to fade to a similar extent, and therefore, since the second path had more grass on it than the first one, it had been less often chosen by other travellers like him who had been faced with the same choice before his arrival at the junction of the forest trail. Moreover, this second path was in fact a better choice for him because he could see that it was filled with grass still, unlike the other path that was almost barren. He says that the other road was as justified a choice as the first one for the poet to walk along, and so he chose the second one. In this stanza, the poet describes what he did after looking down one of the two paths at the junction of a forest trail along which he was taking a walk. His field of vision only allowed the poet to see the length of that path to the point at which it disappeared among a dense growth of shrubs and other plants along its way. For a long time, he stood at the junction and looked as far as his vision would reach down one of the two paths. However, this was not an easy choice for Frost to make. Being a single and lone traveller, the poet could not possibly travel along both of those paths, and had to choose one path to walk down instead. In this stanza, the poet describes how he was walking along a trail through a forest where in the leaves of all the trees had turned yellow, and how in the course of this walk, he came across a junction where the trail divided into two paths.
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