The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . ." One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" is so ubiquitous that it's easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost's immortal lines remain unbelievably popular. And yet in spite of this devotion, almost everyone gets the poem hopelessly wrong.



David Orr's The Road Not Taken dives directly into the controversy, illuminating the poem's enduring greatness while rev...