The speaker of the poem is reflecting on an event that led him to make a choice. Literally, one day he or she was walking around and came across a split route where he or she had to decide which route to take; however, Frost intended the poem to be interpreted on a deeper level. The reader is expected to put themselves in the mind of the speaker, take the ambiguous words and apply them to their own life. The speaker explains that it is often difficult to determine which is the best choice when given options: “Then take the other one, equally right.” Sometimes the answer in life is not clearly defined. The speaker proceeds to say, with hints of reminiscence or regret in his or her voice, that one day he or she will look back on the decision and sigh. Every aspect of this poem embodies Frost's definition of poetry as a "momentary pause against confusion." Decisions tend to contribute significantly to stress and complications. Frost used his gift of writing to take all the decisions and simplify them into a twenty-line poem. He essentially said that the right choice is never clear (otherwise it wouldn't be a choice) and that it is often too late to go back once a decision has been made. Every time a choice is made, an entire possible future is eliminated, and at that point the only thing a person can do is remember what could have been. What Frost communicated in “The Road Not Taken” is applicable to every choice made in life. He has brilliantly simplified something so problematic and anxiety-provoking into a simple process. This has been Frost's goal throughout his career: to create places of safety and clarity in his poetry that readers would want to stay in. Frost also created comfort in his poetry through the use of stereotypical iambic pentameter and predictable rhymes: "And be a traveller, long I stayed / And watched one as long as I could." Even a