![]() This clever line is now one of the most popular quotes on Goodreads: Throughout his career, Frost received 40 honorary degrees, 31 Nobel Prize nominations, 4 Pulitzer Prizes and the Congressional Gold Medal. The poem created two completely opposite camps, the freedom fighters and the nihilists, and pitted them against one another.īut there’s even more to the story. Whether it was a planned move on Frost’s end or just one of the many accidental fires started by humanity, the ambiguity was brilliant. ![]() Maybe the narrator sighs not because he’s content to take an untrodden path, but because he regrets he can take only one, when, in reality, the choice doesn’t matter and both end up in the same place. The other is that even trying to do so is nonsense. One is that you should always take the less traveled path, make your own choices, and be an independent thinker. Sure enough, much like the two roads in the woods, Frost’s poem offers vastly diverging interpretations of life. ![]() There’s a saying that the best art divides the audience. But in order to survive for over 100 years, the poem couldn’t just be popular. ![]() People read, talk about, and teach it in schools all around the world to this day. It’s from The Road Not Taken, written by Robert Frost in 1916, one of the most popular poems of all time. ![]()
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