The home at Crow Island, Massachusetts, where Frost spent his Christmasįrost hated Christmas as much as Scrooge. Because I owned the house where Robert Frost liked to spend his Christmases, I feel obligated to explain his poem and why it inspired this introduction. The answer is that Peck borrowed his title from the end of the poem, “I took the road less traveled, and that has made all the difference.” His meaning is different from the title Frost used, and it goes to the heart of the thesis about why some people get to have extraordinary lives. Is the poem the road less traveled or the road not taken? Those are two interesting but dissimilar ideas like tigers or lions. Phyllis Theroux of the Washington Post said, “was not just a book, but a spontaneous act of generosity.”Ī careful observer will say something is not right here. Scott Peck’s massive international bestseller, The Road Less Traveled. According to the Paris Review, “The signature phrases of “The Road Not Taken” have appeared in advertisements for Mentos, Nicorette, during the Super Bowl and in more than four hundred books and is arguably the most popular of the 20th century.” The poem also inspired M. While Berra would never call his idea a ‘thesis,’ it mirrored the meaning of Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken.” He wrote the poem in 1916 at age 42. Some forks lead to oblivion, and you need to turn back and start over. I left college without finishing my degree and spent many evenings in my thirties writing a final thesis. Others are detours that one hopes will lead somewhere. If you look back on your life, you’ll see, perhaps inadvertently, that you have taken many forks in the road yourself. He was the third highest-paid ballplayer on the Yankee team because when he saw the fork in the road, he took it.
If listeners laughed at his malaprops, Berra cackled all the way to the bank. “It’s so crowded no one goes there anymore” is illogical yet requires no explanation. I’ll try to explain why the befuddled baseball catcher and the Nobel Prize-winning poet said the same thing.īerra was a well-known barroom philosopher prone to grammatical inventiveness that left people bewildered while nodding their heads. Yogi Berra famously said, “when there is a fork in the road - take it.” The American poet Robert Frost somewhat the same thing, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
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