When I started prepping up for this assignment, I read several poems by different poets. But hardly anything talked to my heart. At last, I recalled I had read "The Vanishing Red" by Robert L. Frost years back in High School and had liked it quite a bit. To put it in a nutshell, after spending long hours in the library reading Frost's poems -- which was not an easy task, since Frost has been such a prolific poet -- I decided to write about "The Road Not Taken."

Robert Lee Frost, The poet whose poem I'll shortly comment upon, was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. After his father's death in 1885, he moved to New England and settled in rural Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Young Frost experimented with poetry in his early years at High School. He did so, as well, in Dartmouth College and Harvard University, wh

First, a cursory look at the title tells us that whatever we're about to read is given to us in retrospect, because of the verb tense "taken." Second, we can safely deduce that "Not" involves a choice that the poet has made. Third, the word "Road" indicates that there has been some kind of a journey involved. So we proceed with our reading:

Similarly, I not only chose to write about this poem because I knew about the great American de facto poet laureate (potter 3), but because I can relate to Frost's main theme, that of "diverging roads." His vision of life is very consonant with my real life experience and everything in the poem flows in confluence with what I think, with a slight nuance. In my case, after ten years of involuntary exile from school for which I paid an exorbitant price, I did manage to "go back" to the other road and recuperate the squandered time.

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Bloom casts a little light by asserting that the notion that a road is less traveled than another is a fiction, a story the speaker "shall be telling" us for "ages and ages hence" (33). I personally think the idea of a "fiction" is ingenious, but little short of my capability to perceive, without outside help. So we proceed:

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ich he attended for a brief time. Later, from 1885 to 1912 , as Harold Bloom, a literary critic and a professor of humanities at the University of Yale writes, Frost took up poultry farming, teaching, and writing poetry "often at night at the kitchen table" (13). Only after moving to England in 1912, Frost kicked off his literary career after publishing "A Boy's Will," who got a positive review by Ezra pound, the influential modernist writer of the time (Potter 16).

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