Comment by danielvaughn
23 days ago
I don’t have time to watch the lecture but interested in it. I remember reading about Frosts personal life at one point, and learned that he had a very conventional marriage for decades before his wife passed away. Some time later he began having an affair with his friends wife. My memory is hazy here, but I think I recall looking up the year that Road Not Taken was written, and it was during this time he was having this very unconventional late-life period. It made me wonder whether that poem was him looking back on his traditional/moral life he’d lived, and wondering whether it was the right choice.
> I remember reading about Frosts personal life at one point, and learned that he had a very conventional marriage for decades before his wife passed away. Some time later he began having an affair with his friends wife. My memory is hazy here, but I think I recall looking up the year that Road Not Taken was written, and it was during this time he was having this very unconventional late-life period.
He wrote "The Road Not Taken" 23 years before his wife died, your suggested time line does not add up.