What is your interpretation of Robert Frosts poem,”The Road Not taken?
I strongly disagree with the literal interpretation that this is about individualism and nonconformity. Nowhere in the poem does Frost indicate we should take the road less traveled, or that one road would be superior to the other. Instead, he is lamenting the impossibility of not being able to take ALL roads, and regret at never being able to know where untrodden roads might have taken us. It is the fact that a choice is forced upon the narrator at all that he is sorry for; not WHICH choice he made. As for the “sigh,” I have always read it as simply a sigh of regret at not being able to go back and travel every road in life, not as a sigh of regret over the way the narrator’s life has progressed. If you’re really a fan of the poem, you might enjoy hearing a recording of Frost reciting it himself! http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.
