Great Regulars: But Frost is subtle, as always.

His poems often seem simple, easy to understand. But as he himself warned, "You have to be careful of that one; it's a tricky poem--very tricky." He intended the poem as an ironic jab at his friend and fellow poet Edward Thomas. They used to take walks through the forest together, and Thomas always complained at the end that they should have taken a different path. "Oh you silly man," I imagine Frost saying to himself. "You and all your agonizing and aggrandizing."

from Fleda Brown: Traverse City Record-Eagle: Choices in the new year

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