Frost's most famous poem is misread as a celebration of American nonconformists, writes SU professor. To true nonconformists, it would have evoked the era's racial violence.
Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.
Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...
“The Road Not Taken” has become the best-known example ... Beware the shrugged afterthoughts of Robert Frost: “If design ...
His recitations — dramatic monologues, really — of some of Frost’s most familiar works, including “The Road Not Taken,” “Away ... and to each other. ROBERT FROST: THIS VERSE ...
To celebrate the 150th birthday of Robert Frost, one of America ... a Snowy Evening,” “Mending Wall,” and “The Road Not Taken.” Frost was born March 26, 1874 and died in 1963.
Poetry great Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco ... They reportedly influenced Frost to write "The Road Not Taken" ...
Or in-flight safety announcements. [From the August 1915 issue: Robert Frost’s “Birches,” “The Road Not Taken,” and “The Sound of Trees”] The interesting comparison, fame-wise ...