"The sonnet's speaker lets us know he "will tell", eventually, of how he took the less common direction … yet he has proactively conceded that the two ways "similarly lay/In leaves" and "the passing there/Had worn them truly about the equivalent." So the road he will later call more uncommon is really the road similarly voyaged. The two roads are exchangeable."
Frost composed the sonnet as a joke for his companion Edward Thomas, who was much of the time hesitant about which course to take when the two went strolling.
A New York Times book survey on Brian Corridor's 2008 history Fall of Frost states: "However they go, they're certain to miss something great on the other way." With respect to the "moan" that is referenced in the last refrain, it very well might be viewed as a declaration of disappointment or of fulfillment. In any case, there is importance in the contrast between what the speaker has quite recently said to describe the two roads, and what he will say from now on. As indicated by Lawrance Thompson, Frost's biographer, as Frost was once going to peruse the sonnet, he remarked to his crowd, "You must watch out for that one; it's an interesting sonnet — exceptionally precarious", maybe proposing to recommend the sonnet's unexpected potential outcomes.
Thompson recommends that the sonnet's storyteller is "one who constantly squanders energy in lamenting any decision made: behind schedule however contemplatively he moans over the alluring option dismissed." Thompson likewise says that while presenting the sonnet in readings, Frost would agree that that the speaker depended on his companion Thomas. In the most natural sounding way for Frost, Thomas was "an individual who, whichever street he went, would be sorry he didn't go the other. He was challenging for himself that way."
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