by Robert Frost

Question

What does this mean?
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

Answer 1

Once choices are taken, they lead to other choices, which leads to other choices, and so on.

Answer 2

You need to take those two lines in context of the entire poem.

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Frost is saying that as we follow our instincts and judgment, we go on to follow other routes from these decisions. He doubts if he will ever go back to take the second route because he'll have other roads to follow.

Answer 3

I agree completely with Ms Sue's interpretation.

"He doubts if he will ever go back to take the second route because he'll have other roads to follow."

What a great poem this is!

I had the good fortune to hear him recite that poem and others, 50 years ago, during his visit to my college. It's one of my fondest memories.