This review is about Pritchard's view towards Frost's life, his thinking and the connection with the poem The Road Not Taken.
             Robert Frost read The Road Not Taken in front of Amherst College students on the invitation of Alexander Meiklejohn, an educator and president of Amherst. Meiklejohn, in the effort of making Amherst into a place of essentially intellectual, a place of mind, a liberal college; invite the poet to join the Amherst College faculty. The president might have congratulated himself by taking the less traveled road and invited a poet who's lack of college degree, into his faculty.
             Pritchard then comments on the nature of Frost: his wildness spirit and its unwillingness to be restrained within the formulas of the 'liberal college'. For Frost, intellectual activity is something that all the 'fun' is by being 'outside' and by saying things that suggest formulae that won't formulate-that almost but don't quite formulate.
             Prichard indicates that Frost is being subtle in his poem. Not just subtle, but so much so as to fool 'the casual person' into thinking that what he said was obvious.
             Pritchard analyze The Road Not Taken having the large moral meaning which is: go, as I did, your own way, take the road less traveled by, and it will make "all the difference". But if one looks more closely, the poet is insistent on admitting that the 2 roads were identical –"really about the same", both roads "equally lay". It is as Pritchard said, a matter of impulse on which road to choose. The writer then claimed that the poet speak a different story in the last stanza which tells that 'with a sigh' and 'ages and ages hence'.
             The poem The Road Not Taken was meant for Edward Thomas, a friend of the poet and Frost was disappointed that Thomas failed to understand it as a poem about himself and insisted that ...