![]() ![]() There are a number of poems in which Frosts speaker undercuts conclusions that have become. I mean, it's an incredibly popular piece of writing. The Road Not Taken was published in Mountain Interval (1916). ![]() The fact that you could recite a poem written by an American in New Zealand today, a 100-year-old poem, is pretty amazing, and that they're expected to recognize it, know what it is, have associations with it. Why? What has done that?ĭAVID ORR, Author, "The Road Not Taken": You know, I began the book by talking about a commercial in New Zealand, and it's a commercial for Ford cars.Īnd the narration of the commercial is nothing but someone reading "The Road Not Taken." They don't attribute it to Frost. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. It's called "The Road Not Taken." And that's the title of a new book that calls it 'the poem everyone loves and almost everyone gets wrong.'Īuthor David Orr is poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review and joins us now.Īs you say, this is one of those rare poems that gets into mainstream culture, even commercials. More Episodes from Audio Poem of the Day. Audio recordings of classic and contemporary poems read by poets and actors, delivered every day. The poem is about a man walking through the woods, who comes to a fork in the trail and is trying to. The Road Not Taken Related Authors Robert Frost Audio Poem of the Day. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood" - the first lines of one of the best-known poems by one of the nation's best-loved poets, Robert Frost. Frost claims that he wrote this poem about his friend Edward Thomas, with whom he had walked many times in the woods near London. The Road Not Taken is a poem originally published by American poet Robert Frost in 1915. ![]()
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