Perhaps, if asked, Frost would define man as a choice-making animal. With Frost, these moments become the theme themselves, not just a prop or a backdrop for developing his themes. But their constant recurrence in Frost's works has more to them than the obvious fact that Frost is a writer. Crucial moments when choices have to be made are distinct spots of time in human life and hence find recurring mention in literature right from Homer down to our present-day fiction. Along with this poem, Frost has written many poems in which the question of making a choice is the central point - choices that have to be made compulsorily, choices that have been made, choices that could not be made. It is like a resting point to which Frost keeps returning on and often. George Nitchie points out that the problem of choice is one of the major themes in Frost's poetry. And this is what has made difference to the poet. In particular, the poet has an intuition that one day he will look back in retrospect and perhaps be glad that he took the less frequented road. It is in making a choice that one has to order one's priorities and is tested. One cannot always have the best of everything. In general, the poet realizes that a person has very often to make choices. Even at this crucial moment of having to make a choice, the poet was aware of the importance of the choice - in general as well as in particular. But the poet also realized immediately that there was no real difference because he's going through the road would have worn it about the same. Ultimately he was able to choose one road - the road which he thought was frequented by fewer people than those that took to the other road.
He was indecisive and lingered on for some time. Frost found it difficult choosing to take one road out of the two. In this poem, Frost tells us that as he was traveling alone one day he found himself to have reached a point where the road divided into two.