I recommend also reading "The Most Misread Poem in America": Most readers consider “The Road Not Taken” to be a paean to triumphant self-assertion (“I took

I recommend also reading "The Most Misread Poem in America": Most readers consider “The Road Not Taken” to be a paean to triumphant self-assertion (“I took the one less traveled by”), but the literal meaning of the poem’s own lines seems completely at odds with this interpretation. The poem’s speaker … has already admitted that the two paths “equally lay / In leaves” and “the passing there / Had worn them really about the same.” So the road he will later call less traveled is actually the road equally traveled. The two roads are interchangeable. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misread-poem-in-america/ http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misre...