The Crossroad Boxes

The Crossroad Boxes

If you've lived on this earth you've been there, at the two roads diverging in a wood. You've "...stood and looked down one as far as [you] could to where it bent in the undergrowth..."

(Frost, Robert, The Road Not Taken, The Poetry of Robert Frost edited by Edward Connery Lathem, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969, p. 105.)

Robert Frost's famous poem, The Road Not Taken, is one of his most loved poems and one of my favourites. It's a universal struggle experienced by millions of people worldwide languaged with such poetic skill that it engages our hearts. We've all been there.

It's not a fun place to be in my experience. Read more.

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