See this article [1] for an explanation of how the poem is supposedly taught & understood incorrectly. I tend to agree with the claim. The crux is in the 2 par

See this article [1] for an explanation of how the poem is supposedly taught & understood incorrectly. I tend to agree with the claim. The crux is in the 2 paragraphs starting with "Frost’s poem turns this expectation on its head", and the main claim is: "According to this reading, then, the speaker will be claiming “ages and ages hence” that his decision made “all the difference” only because this is the kind of claim we make when we want to comfort or blame ourselves by assuming that our current position is the product of our own choices (as opposed to what was chosen for us or allotted to us by chance)." [1] https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misread-poem-in-america/ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misr...