Read these lines from robert frost’s "the road not taken.”
oh, i kept the first for another day!
yet knowing how way leads on to way,
i doubted if i should ever come back.
which idea is conveyed by this part of the extended metaphor that is created throughout the poem?
because a choice will take us in certain directions, it is not always possible to know what might have been.
if one choice does not work out the way it was intended, it is always possible to go back and change things.
once a decision has been made, one should never look back and wonder what could have been different.
when torn between two decisions, it is best to remember that one can always go back and make a different choice.

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.