When I Was One-and-Twenty
At twenty-one, the speaker ignores a wise man’s warning not to give his heart away. A year later, heartbroken, he admits the advice was right. A reading of Housman’s folk-song lyric on love, youth, and regret.
Theme
regret
2 poems
regret
The Road Not Taken
Everyone quotes it as an anthem of individualism — take the road less traveled. But the poem says the two roads were worn “really about the same.” Frost’s sly masterpiece is about how we look back and tell ourselves, with a sigh, that our choices were brave and decisive.