"It's my job to bring this out, help people linger over a poem. I'd like the reader to read the poem not just as an ornament, but as a working through of a thought." An educator, poet and scholar of ...

1. "I took the road less traveled." In Robert Frost's culturally omnipresent poem, "The Road Not Taken," he tries to decide which of two paths he should take. He looks down one but chooses the ...