The Real Meaning of “The Road Not Taken”

It’s graduation season, that special time of year when young people wear robes while booing mentions of AI, and when I get to hear Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” cited regularly — and almost always erroneously. Here is the famous snippet that shows up at commencement:

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”

It is invoked as an ode to rugged individualism. You can picture the narrator, standing in the forest, staring at two possible paths. One is well trodden, filled with sunlight, and leading to an obvious destination. The other is dark, bounded by gnarled trees. Where does it go? Only one way to find out… read more >

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