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