Speyside
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 11:48:02 AM
The Road Not Taken

BY ROBERT FROST

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.

Stogie1020
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:32:40 PM
Probably had lots of ticks, with the grass being higher and such...

Just sayin.

Stogie1020
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:34:27 PM
Also, land mines. Not metaphorical poetic ones, real, pop up and kill you land mines. The worn path has likely been cleared.

That's probably why he never comes back to write about the other path.

IMO.

Stogie1020
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:34:59 PM
<----------- Not an English major in college.
HockeyDad
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:35:07 PM
I’m thinking one trail had a sign that said “Whites Only” and the other had a sign that said “Colored”.

Critical Trail Theory

opelmanta1900
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 2:17:26 PM
In my outdoors experience, roads "less traveled" are called animal paths... they just look less traveled cuz animals don't wear the trail down to bare dirt like humans do... this ain't bad for a hunting poem, but kinda anti climactic...
CelticBomber
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 4:56:29 PM
Frost's intent isn't what most people think it is with this poem. It was meant to be a gentle joke at the expense of a friend he would take long walks with. No matter which path they walked, his friend would always regret their choice. The poem was supposed to get his friend to see that his constant regret was pointless. Once you make a choice you can't take it back. Look to the road ahead instead of getting stuck by "what might have been".

In a letter sent by Frost to Leonidas W.. Payne Jr., November 1, 1927

My poems—I should suppose everybody’s poems—are all

set to trip the reader head foremost into the boundless.

Ever since infancy I have had the habit of leaving my

blocks carts chairs and such like ordinaries where people

would be pretty sure to fall forward over them in the dark.

Forward, you understand, and in the dark.

Is this your curtain call Spey?

RayR
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 5:08:41 PM
His name was Robert Lee Frost, his parents named him after American hero and Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

The poem is metaphorical, did he mean he didn't follow the mob?

CelticBomber
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 5:29:56 PM

His name was Robert Lee Frost, his parents named him after American hero and Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

The poem is metaphorical, did he mean he didn't follow the mob?

RayR wrote:

Frost wrote letters to many of his friends describing exactly who he wrote it about, Edward Thomas, and why. It can mean whatever you want it to mean to you. I already wrote what Frost's intent was. To Frost. it had nothing to do with following the mob. His intent was to gently chide his friend to stop regretting his choices, whichever path he chose.

Sunoverbeach
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 5:41:36 PM
^^ This. Follow your own path was the common interpretation spoonfed to the middle/high schoolers. It was later we learned that no interpretation is wrong exactly. But many of the common ones were far from the poet's thoughts on it
Smooth light
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 5:45:46 PM
Right, that's how I learned it in advanced American literature class.
tonygraz
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 7:38:40 PM
In the mountains of New Hampshire there must have been much time to write.
frankj1
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 7:52:40 PM
Spey, if this his swan song, has departed in a way more beautiful than donutboy!

But donutboy did so on post 10,000... I seem to believe.

Burned up like a $100 bill.

HockeyDad
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 9:12:21 PM

Spey, if this his swan song, has departed in a way more beautiful than donutboy!

But donutboy did so on post 10,000... I seem to believe.

Burned up like a $100 bill.

frankj1 wrote:

If this is his swan song….this is a “look at me!” post and that’s just the worst.

frankj1
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 10:13:50 PM
Why would he want us to look at you?

CelticBomber
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 10:27:06 PM

If this is his swan song….this is a “look at me!” post and that’s just the worst.

HockeyDad wrote:

How did your avatar survive the #MeToo movement?

bgz
  • bgz
  • Herf-A-Holic
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 10:44:02 PM

The Road Not Frankied

BY BGZ

Two roads diverged by some yellow snow,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one with the 3 tracks I saw below

And looked down one as far as I could

To wonder where it bent... that massive wood;

Then took the other, as just to be fair,

Azz is safe yes? At least that was the claim,

Because it was gassy and and had under wear;

Though as for it passing gas all the way there

Surely if Franky saw me, he would spare me the shame

And later that morning woke up equally laid

It leaves no step forward, homey Franky has to stand the f*ck back.

Oh, I kept the fist for another day!

Yet knowing how it would help ease the way,

I ain't every going to get that normal sh*t back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh... and in pain

Somewhere ages and ages from now I'll wince you know:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— am insane

I took the one with 3 tracks in the snow,

And now my sphincter is broken... the end

Speyside wrote:

FIFY

CelticBomber
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 11:31:32 PM

FIFY

bgz wrote:

From Robert Frost to Frank's third leg in 17 posts... Welcome to CBid! [whip]

teedubbya
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 11:58:32 PM
Fare thee well now

Let your life proceed by it's own design

Nothing to tell now

Let the words be yours, I'm done with mine

opelmanta1900
Wednesday, June 23, 2021 12:36:13 AM
**** you, **** you, **** you, you're cool, and **** you, I'm out!
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