What Gives Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken†Its Power?
On the 100th anniversary of the poem’s publication, a Smithsonian poet examines its message and how it encapsulates what its author was all about
By David C. Ward
smithsonian.com
August 10, 2015
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It’s a small irony in the career of Robert Frost that this most New England of poets published his first two books of poetry during the short period when he was living in Old England. Frost was very careful about how he managed the start of his career, wanting to make the strongest debut possible, and he diligently assembled the strongest lineup of poems possible for his books A Boy’s Will and North of Boston. Frost had gone to England to add further polish to his writing skills and to make valuable contacts with the leading figures in Anglo-American literature, especially English writer Edward Thomas and expatriate American Ezra Pound; Pound would be a crucial early supporter of Frost.
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