Madamerockybanx: The Path Less Traveled

The speaker says he took the path less travelled by, although he has already stated that the foot traffic has worn them really about the same, and that both paths are equally undisturbed. Regularly recited at important rites of passage, the poem has repeatedly been misinterpreted as a celebration of the courage required to take the path “less traveled” (line 19). Here, however, they imagine rewriting the story and insisting that one path was, in fact, “less traveled by. ” from their present perspective, the speaker obviously knows that such an.