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Fantastic. It's not about tredding your own path. It's about how we embellish our own pasts. I didn't know.

• ctdonath 11y ago
  A good insight. The key is the middle line "Though as for that the passing [travelers] there / Had worn them really about the same". Yes, he chose the path less travelled, and the poem itself is remembered for extolling the choice of the less travelled path - but that path was not barely used as we all tend to recall the poem's point (and the author's future listeners interpret), but instead was quite nearly the same and chosen only because it hadn't been trampled quite as badly as the marginally more popular alternative.
  • chippy 11y ago
    this is exactly the misreading!! The paths were the same. He is saying that far in the future he will look back and say that whatever path he took was less travelled, whereas in reality it wasn't.
    • ctdonath 11y ago
      "Then took the other, as just as fair, / And having perhaps the better claim, / Because it was grassy and wanted wear"