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July 02, 2024

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I read this poem aloud in high school and my teacher scolded me for picking such a "common" poem. The Frost poems I love the most are 'Out, Out' 'The Death of the Hired Man' and 'The Subverted Flower' (so weird). Also 'Home Burial' which seems to hang over the movie 'In the Bedroom."

I think the title suggests not taking the bait of self-doubt, and sticking with the conviction of final stanza. The sigh at end is that he knows others will doubt him.

If there are two PARALLEL roads, one taken and one not ,one can still arrive at the same destination. For instance, I can take Broadway to 42nd St at Times Square OR i can take 7th Ave to the same destination because both roads ( streets) arrive there.

Such cannot be true for two roads that are not PARALLEL. I cannot take 9th Ave to Times Square nor can i take 1st Ave to Times Square.

Just some food for thought.

But our (lines) so truly parallel,
Though infinite, can never meet.

Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But Fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.

Correction:

9th Ave and 1st Ave ARE parallel to each other but Broadway isn't parallel to either.

Joel's right. And Karl Ludwig's quotation reninds us that not even in Marvell's view of a lover's paaradise can lines "truly parallel" meet in the glamour of infinity. Still, Marvell's "conunction of the mind, / And opposition of the staars is a consummation devoutly to be wished.

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