Summary_On_Road_Not_Taken

Summary On Road Not Taken This review is about Pritchard’s view towards Frost’s life, his thinking and the connection with the poem The Road Not Taken. Robert Frost read The Road Not Taken in front of Amherst College students on the invitation of Alexander Meiklejohn, an educator and president of Amherst. Meiklejohn, in the effort of making Amherst into a place of essentially intellectual, a place of mind, a liberal college; invite the poet to join the Amherst College faculty. The president might have congratulated himself by taking the less traveled road and invited a poet who’s lack of college degree, into his faculty. Pritchard then comments on the nature of Frost: his wildness spirit and its unwillingness to be restrained within the formulas of the ‘liberal college’. For Frost, intellectual activity is something that all the ‘fun’ is by being ‘outside’ and by saying things that suggest formulae that won’t formulate—that almost but don’t quite formulate. Prichard indicates that Frost is being subtle in his poem. Not just subtle, but so much so as to fool ‘the casual person’ into thinking that what he said was obvious. Pritchard analyze The Road Not Taken having the large moral meaning which is: go, as I did, your own way, take road, poem, taken, frost, poet, pritchard, college, amherst, way, understand, traveled, thomas, thinking, subtle, something, said, roads, quite, president, place, meiklejohn, less, intellectual, himself, fun, formulate, formulae, faculty, being, almost, about, really, outside