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I don't think that your interpretation is wrong, but I think you also have to acknowledge that poem is about how when we look back at these choices, we romantic
by eyeinthepyramid 11y ago
I don't think that your interpretation is wrong, but I think you also have to acknowledge that poem is about how when we look back at these choices, we romanticize and assign meaning to these choices that were essentially random.
The man in the poem while reminiscing says 'I took the road less traveled by' but the narrator explicitly says that travel had 'worn them really about the same'. So the self-deception part is fairly explicit.
- allenwlee 11y agoconfirmation bias
- chippy 11y ago>The man in the poem while reminiscing This is not true. This may be the reason for the misreading! He is not reminiscing. he is commenting about reminiscence itself. The author says that in the future he will look back with a sign and state that.
- a3n 11y agoTo your first paragraph, I had that in mind, but struggled to say it. To the second, yeah, OK, but I think deception is a little strong, in part because he acknowledges that they're about the same. He knows that. He had to go somewhere, so he went. Geeks and poetry!