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If you have only the poem, the common interpretation is perfectly reasonable. Frost said the poem was "tricky", which is a clue from the poet that the common in
by nsxwolf 11y ago
If you have only the poem, the common interpretation is perfectly reasonable. Frost said the poem was "tricky", which is a clue from the poet that the common interpretation could be wrong. But what gives the poem meaning? Are you allowed to interpret it yourself? Or does the poet's obscured intent trump that?
In Blade Runner, Is Deckard really a Replicant just because Ridley Scott said so later? There's a few clues in various cuts of the film, but nothing is a slam dunk.
- plonh 11y agoIf you are careful, and parse the whole poem instead skilling the parts with especially nonstandard grammar, you see the inconsistency between the path-walkers thinking and the narrator's thinking and the "ages hence" perspective. You have to reconcile those inconsistencies when reading.