Like any other best friends in the roaring 20’s, Frost and Thomas took frequent nature walks, where they would admire the beautiful English landscape and try to identify interesting birds and other fauna and flora. Hold on, I hear you questioning, wasn’t Frost an American poet? So how did he have an English bloke as his best friend? Well, Frost began his journey as a poet while he was living in England, and returned to America shortly after the first World War. The story behind that friendship sheds an entirely new light on this poem. However, a little research reveals that Frost dedicated this poem to Edward Thomas, who happened to be his best friend and to have also been a poet and an Englishman. If a little bit of a metaphorical magic is mixed in, it then becomes about the choice the poet has made to make a unique decision, over a choice that the majority of people would have made, in an important moment on his journey of life. Put simply, it’s about the poet’s choice to take the less-worn road over a well-worn one, on a trip that he’s taking. Without any further research and on the initial reading, this poem doesn’t seem particularly sophisticated. Many people are oblivious to the fascinating history behind this famous piece, involving the tale of two best friends that ultimately ends in one friend indirectly killing the other through this poem. Get in touch if you’ve got an idea for an adventure.If you’re one of the legions of high school students who have read Robert Frost’s classic poem, “The Road Not Taken,” you probably view it simply as a philosophical poem about making difficult decisions. Turning fifty has inspired her to celebrate the everyday extraordinary: she’s doing fifty things, alone and with others, and hopes you’ll get involved-virtually, or in the flesh. Lucy Underwood is a poet and counsellor who’s lucky enough to live in the Forest of Bowland, England. The Stranger in the Mirror, Jane Shilling.‘In Memoriam: Poems of Bereavement’, edited by Carol Ann Duffy.
‘The Importance of Elsewhere’, Philip Larkin.‘they that go down to the sea in ships’: from Psalm 107, King David.‘When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be’, John Keats.‘loveliest of trees, the cherry now’, AE Housman.‘Spring and Fall’, Gerard Manley Hopkins.‘I meant to do my work today’, Robert LeGallienne.‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’, Robert Frost.‘Antidotes to Fear of Death’, Rebecca Elson.‘vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam’, Ernest Dowson.‘Thoughts after the film Slacker’, Simon Davies.‘Say not the struggle nought availeth’, AH Clough.‘How pleasant it is to have money’, AH Clough.‘what if a day or a month or a year’, thomas campion.‘I am in need of music’, Elizabeth Bishop.‘The Peace of Wild Things’, Wendell Berry.‘I Praise My Destroyer’, Diane Ackerman.
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