Over the past week, I felt so motivated that I worked on TGTTPOACS at least once every day. I’m quite proud of the progress I’ve made. Unfortunately, since this week I literally have at least one assignment due for every one of my classes, I don’t think I’ll be able to make as much progress. Hopefully, I’ll feel just as motivated after the week is over…

Anyway, over at Scum and Miscellany, I’ve put up yet another Robert Frost pastiche, called “Road Not Taken Redux” (my first being “The Road: Not Taken?”). Both are, of course, based on “The Road Not Taken”.

“The Road Not Taken” was my favourite poem for quite a long time. I always felt that it represented me so well, being a militant individualist and all. Then, one year in high school, we studied Robert Frost in English class, and it turned out that EVERYONE loved that poem. How ironic - a poem about individualism ending up being one of the most common and well-known poems in the world. Suddenly, I didn’t feel so special about liking it anymore.

“The Road: Not Taken?” was my satirical response to such observations, written about two or three years ago. Since then, my attitude’s changed slightly; I figured, hey, I shouldn’t stop liking something just because everyone else does. I suppose, in a sense, everyone feels like they’ve taken the road less travelled at least once in life. We are all quirky and different in our own little ways[1] .

With “Road Not Taken Redux”[2] , I decided to revisit Robert Frost’s poem and apply its concepts to my continued frustration with the opposite sex. It’s shorter and less funny than the first pastiche, but somehow more profound.