The subtitle of this book is: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong. How could I resist? The Road Not Taken is theThe subtitle of this book is: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong. How could I resist? The Road Not Taken is the poem that is most recognized around the world, and Orr sets out to show us why we have all been reading it wrong. I enjoyed this book and intend to read it again. It's short, only 172 pages, but it's packed with insight into both Frost and this poem, and his poetry in general.
Orr knows his Frost, and he talks a lot about why the Frost - the public figure we thought we knew - is not who he really was. Frost was portrayed as the quintessential American poet - the rugged New Englander, the poet of the New England countryside and farm. But Orr shows us a different - not so nice - side of Frost. He does a good job of presenting both sides, including biographies.
Orr breaks down the book into 4 chapters: The Poet, The Poem, The Choice, and The Chooser. He also has an introduction, and he repeats himself occasionally, as if he were having trouble finding enough to say.
I'm not going to tell you how to read the poem, because I don't want to spoil it for you. It's enough to say that I intend to do some more reading about Frost and go back and read his poems again with new insights. ...more
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