Symbol Analysis
A road diverges in the middle of the poem (Frost, much?) but it’s kinda too dark to see it, at least at first. Eventually, we are able to meet the road; in line 8, we “meet the road” and are able to follow it. If the darkness is a metaphor for uncertainty, then the road ahead of us can be a metaphor for the future; it’ll lead us somewhere, but we can’t really see where (not without the aid of headlights, anyways, but those didn’t even exist in Dickinson’s time).