From the perspective of a woman, how do you interpret Robert Frost's: "The Road Not Taken"?

I don’t think that my subjective interpretation has got anything to do with me being a woman.

I’ve always loved that one, and relate to it. I’ve always felt a little different in several ways that I won’t list here, but generally I am not a conformist.

Taking the path less travelled, means to me, that you are an individual and hindsight is 20/20, either way you take your chances in all your life decisions.

Hopefully that makes sense. :) Loved this Q, not enough poetry here.

The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

To me
This means to
Make your own paths.
Be a leader
Charter new courses.
Create something
new.
Like a new style.
Be independent.

It doesn’t make any difference if the narrator is male or female. It’s a lovely, simple poem about the decision-factor involved in making a choice. It’s one of many that we face every day. That’s what makes the poem timeless and easy to relate to by anyone reading it.

Don’t forget to pay close attention to the last stanza. It complicates the issue.

Like most of Frost’s work, this is deceptively simple (and has no bearing on gender or age).

@gailcalled so true. What IS being said?

“I shall be telling this with a sigh” – I will be regretting taking the lesser worn path or I will be signing contentedly in my choice?

“And that made all the difference.” – Again, ambiguous. Is the difference a positive or negative result?

I think it is this very ambiguity that allows so many to relate to the poem.

Or, could it be interpreted that the OP was asking if you viewed the poem in the feminine, as someone needing to decide which woman to pursue, and the choice being extolled was between a virgin and a more experienced partner would your appreciation of the poem be different?

If this were/is the case my answer would still be the same.

I don’t think being a woman has anything to do with its interpretation. It’s pretty straightforward: he took the path less traveled, and it made a difference.

To me, this is like asking, “How does being a woman influence your choice to eat either oatmeal or pizza for breakfast?”