41+ A Road Less Travelled Poem Background. If this poem touched you, please take a moment to vote for the poem and perhaps leave a comment telling us why. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry i could not travel both.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and be one traveler, long i stood.
It isn't even an option. 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 at the end of the poem, the speaker doesn't say that he chose the less traveled path, which has made all the difference. An idiom is a word, group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. In the road less traveld by, there would be more bumps in the road and more brush and undergrowth.