I'd expect no less from an English teacher.
It was more that the line just jumped in my mind after watching it. I don't necessarily think the two are about the same thing.
I figured something like that - like I said, just me being nit-picky.
I always like your hooks for your reviews. They're usually provocative, as a hook should be.
The last three lines of the poem are the speaker's future self, a self with a revisionist memory. Sorry to be annoying.
Wait, I'm a bit confused. The poem is about a life-altering decision the poet made and him contemplating what would have happened if he had done something different then, right?
Yes, that's right, 'Noke. Many people though misremember the poem and think it's about a celebration of individual choice, celebrating the idea of taking a path few others take, walking to the beat of a different drummer, that sort of thing.
The poem is basically about a choice, yes, a decision that's before that speaker - and the two alternatives look equally appealing. He knows he's going to have to choose - he wishes he could try one path and then come back and try the other later, but he knows that "way leads on to way" and he'll never come back. He's just going to have to choose one path. But he knows he'll always wonder about the "road not taken," what life would have been if he'd taken that road. And to comfort himself in later years, he'll justify the path he did take by describing it as the road "less traveled," even though it wasn't.