When I walk down the road much traveled... I realize... This is not the person I used to be...
What do you understand? What does this mean or signify...?
2007-06-22 19:06:13 · 16 answers · asked by Franky 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
To me, it means that when "I" live my life the way most other people do because it's the "in" thing to do, there comes a day when I look back and realize that that is not really who I used to be. It's like giving in to peer pressure or "going with the flow" because I want to be liked/accepted, and not following my own heart and being my own person. After a while, a person tends to realize how many decisions were made based on others and not on our own internal desires.
2007-06-22 19:19:28 · answer #1 · answered by Luna 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The person has traveled down that road many times. And now, he's walking down the road, he realizes he has changed a lot. He's different. Life or whatever the road signifies has changed him.
2007-06-23 02:55:18 · answer #2 · answered by Earthling 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When I walk down a much-traveled road, I realize that I no longer am the person I used to be.
In a few words it means than the more you go through in you life the more you change.
2007-06-23 13:09:34 · answer #3 · answered by bullion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well to me it would signify
When i walked down the road, that i have walked down so many times, and so many others have travelled by, it suddenly occurs to me, that who i am now, is not who i was in a past time.
Meaning they have gone through life, and now they have a different personality, and they don't act how they did when they were younger.
it is a poetic way or shortening something that could be quite complex. It is written poetically... it sounds like the end of a novel.
It makes sense.
2007-06-23 17:28:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see it as if you walk down the road that everyone else is going down you slowly loose yourself as you become like everyone else!
2007-06-23 02:14:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It means that the person followed everybody else instead of doing their own thing like they started out to do. Having come this far, it has become a habit to be conformist.
2007-06-23 02:17:58 · answer #6 · answered by Richard F 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The person is saying that they have changed while traveling(life) a well know path(the one they choose)
2007-06-23 02:16:01 · answer #7 · answered by peppersham 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That you have changed from what you used to be, grown up, adapted more to your current situations in life. It could either lean to being a good thing or a bad. Depending on how you view it
2007-06-23 02:09:35 · answer #8 · answered by Jessica B 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
um that person has changed throughout his/her life for the good or the bad.
road much traveled=his/her life
not the person i used to be= was different from before
2007-06-23 02:14:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
the "road much traveled" is the path we each take thru life
the author is recognizing his own growth on that path.
2007-06-23 02:09:04 · answer #10 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋