Instead, it was a wry jab at Thomas for worrying so much about the path that was taken and the decisions that were made. As discussed earlier, the poem was not intended to be a call to action. Upon returning to the United States in 1915, Frost sent a copy of the poem to Thomas. His dissatisfaction over the path they had taken became a joke between the two men. After their walks where Thomas would choose the route, he would express his fear that a different route would have been better. Thomas had a tendency to regret his choices. These walks were very important to both men. Frost and Thomas often took walks to clear their heads after a day of writing, and to discuss each other’s lives. In 1912 Frost moved to England and befriended fellow poet Edward Thomas. I was struck by the thoughts on the poem Howey shared on Twitter, and I’d like to share them here.įirst, let’s take a look at the entire poem: Then, I want to share an analysis of the poem by writer Hugh Howey. First, I want to examine the background of “The Road Not Taken.” It has a funny, but tragic, backstory. There are two things I want to do with this blog post. The narrator did not take the less traveled road, but he knows that at some point in the future, he will lie to himself and say that his life is what it is because he took the road less traveled. Instead, in the lines preceding the famous line, the narrator says: He’s not saying to take the road less traveled. Four different times in the poem, the narrator tells the reader that both paths are equally untraveled. But that’s not what the narrator is saying.
It’s not unusual for people to read that line and think Frost’s narrator is encouraging them to take the road less traveled in order to live an amazing, successful life. Perhaps the most famous line from the poem is: “The Road Not Taken” is a relatively short poem, but it packs a lot into a few words.
However, that wasn’t Frost’s intention with the poem. One of the most beloved, but misunderstood, poems in American literature is Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” For a lot of people, the poem is a call to live an exceptional life, eschewing the usual script and instead embracing the extraordinary.
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