Journal The Road Not Taken Poem 1. Briefly explain what is happening in the poem. In the poem The Road Not taken, the speaker stands in the woods, considering a fork in the road. Both ways are equally worn and equally overlaid with untrodden leaves. The speaker chooses one, telling himself that he will take the other another day. Yet he knows it is unlikely that he will have the opportunity to do so. And he admits that someday in the future he will recreate the scene with a slight twist: He will claim that he took the less traveled road. 2. Explain how the speaker feels about the two roads. In this poem, the speaker experiences an internal conflict concerning which of the two roads he or she should take. The roads are symbolic, meaning that they have both literal and figurative meaning; they are literally there in the woods, but they also stand for something else: any significant choice that a person must make in his or her life. The speaker wishes that it were poss...