Frost and the City
Given that we just read Robert Frost in class last week, this is an appropriate comic strip....
One of the things I like best about Robert Frost is that many of his poems have more to them than you might suspect on a first read. "The Road Not Taken" is a particularly fun one, because the popular interpretation is "do your own thing, not what everyone else has done," or some other nod to "individualism." But a careful reading of the poem shows that the two roads really are equal, not that one is "less traveled" in reality--the poet/narrator takes the road "having perhaps the better claim / because it was grassy and wanted wear / though as for that the passing there / had worn them really about the same." Yes, the poem is about choices, but not necessarily about "the road less traveled."