>I never felt like the Road Not Taken was about individualism, even when I first read it in high school. To me it's about the fact that sometimes you have to ma

>I never felt like the Road Not Taken was about individualism, even when I first read it in high school. To me it's about the fact that sometimes you have to make momentous decisions in life, in which neither choice is clearly right or wrong. Either way you choose, the choice is defensible, but once you make the choice, you can't go back Yeah, the "common misinterpretation" doesn't seem to be that common. However: I suppose you could say that when the poem is quoted it's more likely to be by someone making a point about individualism than someone making a point about irrevocable low-information choices, because people are more likely to drum up inspiring-sounding quotes on the former than neutral-sounding quotes on the latter. So that could explain why people think that other people think that the poem is about the former when they all privately think itabout the latter.