![]() ![]() I’m battling that, more than headwinds and hills. Is it homesickness? Maybe loneliness? Anxiety? Whatever it is, I’ve been feeling a little sulky the last few days, less the intrepid traveler and more the kid at camp who’s had enough and wants to In his post “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Rider,” he writes from Eureka, Mont.: In his “Life Is a Wheel” series, Bruce Weber of The Times is riding his bicycle across the United StatesĪnd blogging about it. Robert Frost is one of America’s best-known poets, and his poem “The Road Not Taken,” with its memorable closing lines, is often quoted. Still has to say? What echoes of that can you find in Times accounts of our world today? Tell us here.ĭecades before Elizabeth Alexander read her inaugural poem for President Obama in 2009, Robert Frost was the first poet to take part in a presidential inauguration- he read when President Kennedy was sworn into office in 1961. What do you think “The Road Not Taken,” a poem published in 1916, Our challenge to you? To find other Times articles, photos, essays or opinion pieces with which this familiar poem might also be matched. We’re beginning, today, with perhaps the most-taught American poem there is: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.”Īnd yes, we’re putting it together with a Times piece about a journey in which literal and figurative roads are taken and not taken. We’re going to alternate classic poems with contemporary ones each week. But this year, instead of using the works from the American Life in Poetry series, We’re still working with the Poetry Foundation to choose a poem and match it with a Times article. We’re doing something new with our Poetry Pairings starting today. Go to related series on the In Transit blog » He writes that on the road in Montana, a lone cyclist can feel small. to New York City and blogging about it as he goes. CREDIT Bruce Weber of The Times is riding his bike from Portland, Ore. ![]()
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