In Frost's poem, a farmer's neighbor repeats an old saying while they rebuild the stone wall between them. The speaker doubts it. The poem asks the question instead of answering it.
Read the full explanation →A traveler picks one of two paths that were “really about the same,” then imagines telling the story years later as if the choice made all the difference. It is a poem about how we tell stories about our choices.
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About Robert Frost
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, farmed in New Hampshire and first found success in England, where his early books were published. He won four Pulitzer Prizes and read a poem at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961.
Frost’s poems sound plain and friendly, but they are often darker and more ironic than they first appear, which is why two of his best-known lines are regularly read the opposite way from how he meant them.
More lines by Frost
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- “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, 1923
- “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”The Death of the Hired Man, 1914