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11-Sep-2015 10:47 pm


How a poem against self deception, has been interpreted as a poem about individualism :-P
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Most readers consider “The Road Not Taken” to be a paean to triumphant self-assertion (“I took the one less traveled by”), but the literal meaning of the poem’s own lines seems completely at odds with this interpretation. The poem’s speaker tells us he “shall be telling,” at some point in the future, of how he took the road less traveled by, yet he has already admitted that the two paths “equally lay / In leaves” and “the passing there / Had worn them really about the same.” So the road he will later call less traveled is actually the road equally traveled. The two roads are interchangeable.

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misread-poem-in-america/

11-Sep-2015 10:47 pm

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11-Sep-2015