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OP referenced the poem at the end. > I came to a fork in the road and took the one less traveled. Perhaps now I realize why. He seems to disagree with Frost t
by studentrob 11y ago
OP referenced the poem at the end.
> I came to a fork in the road and took the one less traveled. Perhaps now I realize why.
He seems to disagree with Frost that the road less traveled is the one worth taking, judging from the title and overall tone of the post.
- labster 11y agoThe roads are equally travelled; Frost says that at the beginning of the poem. Life is a process of narrowing possibilities, and looking back at a particular decision doesn't have a lot of meaning. But everyone get it wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10071717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10071717
- studentrob 11y agoI guess we all have our own takeaways. What in your view is meant by the last lines? > I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
- chii 11y agoThere's a contingent of people who believe that Robert Frost was lamenting the fact that he took the road less traveled by, and had a worse experience. There's a good reason why certain roads are more traveled, and by not going the common path, his life was much harder.
- Lerc 11y agoI took it to be a satirical comment on the way everyone expresses their individuality the same way. Very much the in the same theme as the Monty Python gag: CROWD: We are all Individuals! GUY AT BACK: I'm not.
- studentrob 11y agoHaha. That's a good one.
- i336_ 11y agohttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/quotes http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/quotes
- saalweachter 11y agoIt's a statement about memory, and the narrative we weave about our lives. The full stanza for the last line: I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. He is imagining that he will say the last sentence in the future, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." He is imagining this despite the first three stanzas being about how similar the two roads are, how equally traveled, and how he regrets that he'll only be able to take one. He knows he's making the choice at random, and knows that in the future he will remember otherwise.
- jpendry 11y agoIt might help the HN crowd if you say it's a sarcastic poem about survivorship bias ;)
- LoSboccacc 11y agohttp://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/what-the-author-meant.jpg http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/what-the-a...