The Road Not Taken

America’s Most Widely Misread Literary Sensation

What is it?

Today’s poem is the poem The Road Not Taken by the American poet Robert Frost from the Mountain Interval collection.

The Road not Taken – Robert Frost (by Alan Bates)

Poem (Source: Wikipedia)

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 kept 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.[1]

What is it about?

The Road Less Traveled By

My Thoughts

I first heard this poem many years ago during a Monster.com television commercial:

Monster.com – The Road Less Traveled Commercial 2000

The poem caught my attention and I liked it and I related to it, and so I looked it up online.

The end,

• John Jr

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