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Robert Frost

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / I took the one less traveled by.”
The life

A New England farmer and teacher who sold his farm and moved to England to get published. He wrote in plain speech and metre, and was read as a poet of reassurance until people listened properly.

He made the conversational poem carry philosophical weight.