They included a crumbling acket of love letters and several carefully typed poems, one of which was Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” It was the first poem I have always remembered.

Harvey Teres is the William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and Dean’s Professor for the Public Humanities in English at Syracuse University. It is the end of what ...

Much of the recent talk about “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost’s famous poem of 1916, centers on whether the speaker’s choice of road really makes “all the difference.” The going view is not just ...

At the end of his life, Robert Frost was living in ... The source of Frost’s most famous poem, “The Road Not Taken,” is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Etienne de la Boéce.” ...

Some decisions about the path taken can be surprising, some joyful, others full of regrets. I got thinking about my life recently after reading Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” a poem in ...