Joe Gregorio: I start at Google at the end of this month
In selecting a title for this post, I agonized briefly over changing Less to More. After all, Google seems to be hoovering in all of my friends, one by one.
But, there’s more to Frost’s poem than meets the eye. It’s really about a guy who more or less randomly decides between two equal choices ("... worn them really about the same"). He then pictures himself late in life forlornly (i.e., "... with a sigh") justifying his random decision in a more courageous light.
I don’t think this interpretation is the one you mean to direct at Joe!
An hour ago I had to think of a poem I once read for my English studies. The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost. I don’t know why I had to think of that. Maybe it was because it was briefly cited in Dead Poets Society, which I saw again a few...