'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…' is the start of perhaps one of the best-known, most-quoted poems in American history. While the poem, Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken,' might have become favorite fodder for inspirational quotes and posters, a reading of the whole piece reveals it offers a much more ambiguous message about uncertainty and the stories we tell ourselves.

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David C. Ward, senior historian at the National Portrait Gallery explores the poem here, but the true meaning also becomes clear with a listen to Frost reading his own work. The poet's voice is a little croaky and tired-sounding as his traveler contemplates those two roads. Sighs and hesitations convey the real message.

Best Poem Of Robert Frost. The Road Not Taken. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. And be one traveler, long I stood. And looked down one as far as I could. To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim. Best Poem Of Robert Frost. The Road Not Taken. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. And be one traveler, long I stood. And looked down one as far as I could. To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim.

His first published poem, 'My Butterfly,' appeared on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent. In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, whom he'd shared valedictorian honors with in high school and who was a major inspiration for his poetry until her death in 1938.

To hear a literary work in the author's own voice is a treat and can ignite new feelings about the words. That's the pleasure in listening to Frost narrate a collection of his own poems curated by Open Culture. Writer and musician Josh Jones explains that the collection is now available as two Spotifyalbums. One was created in 1951 by the The National Council of Teachers of English, the other comes from Harper Audio and was recorded in 1956. Both offer a chance to re-evaluate what you thought you knew about the famous poet. Jones writes:

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Frost is a prickly, challenging, even somewhat devious character whose pleasingly musical lines and quaint, pastoral images lure readers into poems that harbor much less cheerful attitudes than they expect to find, and much more complex and mature ideas.

In 'Mending Wall,' Frost sounds almost accusatory as he tells of the gaps in a stone wall. 'No one has seen them made or heard them made,' he complains. Then he admonishes the stones that he and a neighbor have replaced, telling them to: 'stay where you are until our backs are turned!'

Also featured are readings of 'Nothing Gold Can Stay,' 'Fire and Ice,' 'Birches,' and others. There's even some overlap between the two collections, so those with a keen ear can compare the variations between different readings.

Robert Frost was a popular and amazing American poet whose poems are timeless. His works combine three main themes: Love, Nature and Society. The best love poems are: “Love and A question”, “Fire and Ice”, “Reluctance” and “Wind and Window flower”. His poems were short but very deep. An important feature of writing is that readers have to understand a hidden content though the artist vision. Frost was convinced that love can always find a meaning in the world around man:

“But whether or not a man was asked

To mar the love of two

by harboring woe in the bridal house,

The bridegroom wished he knew.”

Frost himself says: “All my poems are love poems”. The pain of love can help us to bear the struggle of life. A very sensitive soul is required to appreciate the love between the men and women in Frost’s poems. Human love has been examined in its different terms: love of wife (husband) mother, children, God, and other men (readers). In any case, a breathtaking feeling of dearness is always connected with struggle and difficulties. However, it makes us life for something.

Robert Frost fell in love with countryside in this regions and the nature around him also was some kind if inspiration. While in England, Frost also established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work. This woman became a very close and important person in poet’s life.

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No wonder, Robert Frost’s quotation is so romantic, tender and realistic nowadays: “Love is an irresistible desire to be an irresistibly desired!”

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