"Whose 'Road Less Traveled By?' Frost's Intent Once Again." The Robert Frost Review (Fall 1999): 21-25. Bellah's interpretation of "The Road Not Taken" as a warning against procrastination encourages readers to go after life-long desires as soon as they can as postponing these desires can lead to a life filled with regrets. Through his article and his use of Frost's poem Bellah was able to arouse nostolgia for times past in his readers. The Best Years is a publication with a demographic comprised of middle-aged adults. He concludes that getting married, having children and getting stable work are exactly what Frost meant when he wrote, "knowing how way leads onto way, I doubted that I'd ever be back". In the article, Bellah also searches for the events of his past that impeded him from coming back to all the roads he had saved for another day. The critic writes about the wide range of majors he considered while in graduate school, and he laments as he realizes that is what Frost must have meant when the speaker saved the first road for another day and was never able to come back to it. Bellah begins his article by writing about all the profesions he had envisioned for himself as a child. Bellah seems to be reflecting on his own mid-life crisis throughout the article and uses his interpretation of the poem Mike Bellah, critic for the online magazine, The Best Years, construes "The Road Not Taken" as a warning against procrastination of goals. Bassett proposes that the soul will go where it wants to, and this random journey of the soul is what most humans perceive as individuality. Untermeyer states that the choice has always been dictated by his destiny. When Basset’s interpretation is closely examined, it seems to bear resemblance to Louis Untermeyer’s perception of the poem. Bassett supposes that the existence of two distinct roads implies that all life’s choices are clear-cut and that there are no grays only blacks and whites. Bassett believes that the speaker and the fork in the road are spiritual ones, but because Bassett believes that the two roads are equally worn, he contends that there are no real roads for the human soul. Bassett does not believe in a physical speaker or even a physical fork in the road. Patrick Bassett’s interpretation is the most outlandish of them all. Louis Untermeyer, writer of The Road Not Taken, proposes that "The Road Not Taken" can not truly be about choice because destiny will always guide one to the necessary path. The editors of, an online study group, focus on the reflective lines of the poem, and argue that it urges readers, not to forge new roads, but to take pride in the ones they have already chosen. Literary critic, Mordecai Marcus, believes that the poem simply takes a satirical look at the quandary of having to make choices at all. Central State University Professor, R.F Fleissner argues that there is no definite interpretation of the poem as it was based on the mannerisms of one man-a friend of Robert Frost's. Mike Bellah, writer for the online magazine, The Best Years, believes that "The Road Not Taken" is Robert Frosts warning against procrastination and the delayment of dreams. Patrick Bassett, contributor to the literary journal The Explicator, believes in the spiritual nature of the poem and contends that it represents spiritual choices of the soul. The interpretations, however, seem to be as diverse and original as the explicators themselves. The subtraction of a less travelled road from "The Road Not Taken" produces an equation with an infinite number of interpretations for answers. Many scholars believe that Frost was too ambivalent in his descriptions of the difference between the two roads, and have therefore challenged the existence of a less travelled road. "The Road Not Taken" is most commonly interpreted as an advertisement of individuality, but that definition is dependent on whether or not there is a road not taken in Frost's poem. One of the most popular of these quarrels is derived from the very title of the poem. The much anthologised work has become the subject of numerous arguments. Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" depicts an image of a solitary traveller who has come to a fork in the road in his journey and must make a decision on which way to proceed.
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