Discussion (3)¬

1. nancy barnby says:

   July 2, 2014 at 2:43 pm

   I love this strip about context! Another example from Frost is the line "Good fences make good neighbors" from "Mending Wall." That line is quoted ad infinitum, taken completely out of context to mean the opposite of Frost's real point — that the neighbor is "like an old-stone savage . . .[who] moves in darkness."

2. Tim Poston says:

   July 2, 2014 at 9:31 am

   I took the road less traveled by poets
   And that made all the difference necessary.

3. Chakolate says:

   July 2, 2014 at 12:29 am

   Actually, if you read the whole poem, you’ll see Frost says it made no difference at the time, but later when he told the tale, he… ‘enhanced’ it.