Stanza 1 most conveys a tone of indecision.
Robert Frost opens his poem, in stanza 1, describing how, seeing "two roads diverged in a yellow wood," he was sorry he "could not travel both and be one traveler." So he stood for a long time and looked down the one that was the more well-traveled path before deciding to take the less-traveled road. At the end of the poem (in stanza 4), he concluded" "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken," was the first poem in his 1916 collection of poetry entitled, <em>Mountain Interval. </em>In 1960, Frost was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal (our nation's highest civilian honor) for his contributions in poetry.