Modern

Robert Frost

1874–1963

Poet of the road not taken

The Road Not Taken is often read as a tribute to nonconformity. Frost wrote it partly as a tease of a friend who sighed over any path. The sigh is in the poem. The moral is the reader’s addition.

In the canon

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.The Road Not Taken

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