Comments on: 60. ROBERT FROST: The road not taken

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 21 May 2013 23:02:19 +0000

Agree with lots of comments here but does anyone think that Frost implies that the road less travelled is often the more difficult one. The easy route generally reaps fewer rewards but more disciplined people tend to have an easier life in the long run. Has anyone read the psychology self help book for people with depression ‘The Road Less Travelled’? This promotes self discipline as a tool for securing a happier disposition. In the basest of terms, say you choose to go out the night before work and get really drunk. The next day you feel like crap, you’re tired, you can’t perform properly and you regret your actions the night
before. Even worse you might ‘throw a sickie’ and spend all day feeling bad about letting down your boss, colleagues etc. Worst scenario, you could lose your job. However, if we do the harder thing and say ‘no’ to the party or even harder still, turn up, have one or two drinks and go home early to bed, we get up the next day bright eyed and bushy tailed with no regrets about the night before. And, there will always be other parties on more appropriate evenings when it wouldn’t matter what time it was or how drunk we got. I expect people will think what a goody goody, life’s too short, grab it with both hands but Im speaking from experience, Ive took the easy route all my life and as my old dad says (who would not have a clue about analysing poetry) ‘Life has a funny habit of creeping up on you and biting you on the arse! Be careful what you choose to do, things you do now will affect you in the future. I have learnt this lesson the hard way but even now don’t always do the difficult thing. I’ts so much easier to opt for the road more commonly travelled, the road which feels safe and gives us more or less instant gratification, the less travelled road is unfamiliar territory to us, so is less comfortable and more challenging.

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By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:20:42 +0000

Joseph Campbell connects here: in old age we look back and see our life as a story whose story arc was inevitable. He says it better!

By: PhantMFox

PhantMFox — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:31:12 +0000

Awesome! w the comic, I just picture running down on path, and as way leads to way just jolting left or right and running down way until another way Nice interpretation!

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By: mahdia

mahdia — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:28:07 +0000

This is unbelievable!
I gave a public speech last year about this time about how I came to North America on a student visa from Africa ( A real struggle it was) and I started my speech with this poem and ended with the last line from it …
Its the same story except I am still in the middle of it … thank you so much for doing this one this way and for all of this fantastic blog … whenever I have a bad day, whenever I am so homesick and starting to question my life and my goal, I come back to look at this …
Not only I find it comforting… but it reminds me that its not bad to aim for the stars even when everyone expects you to keep your eyes on the ground .. thank you so much.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 07:53:23 +0000

I remember reading this poem in class in high school. Our teacher gave a counterculture interpretation of it. He did his best to inspire us to protest injustice and fight for our beliefs. I understood what he was doing but I felt compelled to argue that just because a road is less traveled does not make it the better choice.

My example? I said, “Just because everyone wears clothes doesn’t mean that not wearing clothes is a good idea!”

First thing to pop into my head. I don’t know why.

By: Wrong

Wrong — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:07:44 +0000

This is a poem about stasis. It’s about being paralyzed by decisions, rather than about nonconformity or choice. The man is cowardly and ultimately grows old in the wood, unable to choose a path for fear of choosing the wrong one. That is why it is called The Road Not Taken rather than The Road Less Travelled. Taking any road at all is what makes the difference to the narrator, not the fact that it is less travelled- they are worn about the same.