Senior Poetry: The Road Not Taken

'Everyone knows Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”—and almost everyone gets it wrong...'

'The theme is the underlying message that the writer or artist wants to convey. Themes can feature in poetry, a short story, a novel, or even a work of art...'

'In his 1954 essay "The Prerequisites," Robert Frost (1874–1963) writes that "[a] poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written."1 In this statement, Frost demonstrates a clear understanding of the inevitable connections that exist between great poets...'

'In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on...'

'The letters of Robert Frost invite us to reconsider the man behind the poetry...'

'Robert Frost stood at the intersection of nineteenth-century romanticism and twentieth-century modernism and made both his own. Frost adapted the genteel values and techniques of nineteenth-century poetry, but Barron argues that it was his commitment to realism that gave him popular as well as scholarly appeal and created his enduring legacy...'

'Reading to write..'