In "The Road Not Taken" there seems to be no real definitive way of choosing a path, so how would one know the right path? It seems that if there...

You said there is no definitive way to know which path to take, and in a sense, that is one of the main points of this poem. When faced with two nearly equal paths, which one would you choose and why?

While this literally may make no real difference in the poem, the poem is a metaphor for the decisions we make in life. The crossroads in the poem represents the many different crossroads we face in our real lives. For example, in real life a person might be faced with two different, yet seemingly equal job opportunities. Perhaps they both pay well and the person is just as interested in both. The person must still choose one of them and might always wonder what would have happened if the other job had been chosen. How might life be different? Would the person have been happier in the other job?

The decisions we make in real life, often at those crossroads, are important. Some are more important than others. Although the decision in the poem is not important in itself, the "what if?" feeling that the poem is trying to capture is very reminiscent of the real life choices we question.