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I wonder if it was because you were trying too much out of regard for me that you failed to see that the sigh was a mock sigh, hypo­critical for the fun of the I don’t suppose I was ever sorry for any­ thing I ever did except by assumption to see how it would feel.”Ħ. Thomas responds on July 11, 1915: “You have got me again over the Path not taken & no mistake. In the spring of 1915, Frost sent an envelope to Edward Thomas that contained only one item: a draft of “The Road Not Taken,” under the title “Two Roads.” According to Lawrance Thompson, Frost had been inspired to write the poem by Thomas’s habit of regretting whatever path the pair took during their long walks in the countryside-an impulse that Frost equated with the romantic predisposi­tion for “crying over what might have been.” Frost, Thompson writes, believed that his friend “would take the poem as a gen­tle joke and would protest, ‘Stop teasing me.’”ĥ. Frost writes back on June 26, 1915: “Methinks thou strikest too hard in so small a matter.

“The Road Not Taken” has confused audiences literally from the beginning. Would be pretty sure to fall forward over them in the dark.įorward, you understand, and in the dark.įROST TO LEONIDAS W. Set to trip the reader head foremost into the boundless.Įver since infancy I have had the habit of leaving myīlocks carts chairs and such like ordinaries where people My poems-I should suppose everybody’s poems-are all