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Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.- Jerry Seinfeld?

What is the meaning of this quote 

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  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    Robert Frost poem...Solitude is peaceful ..  but what about Yogi Berra ;When you come to a fork in the road, take it

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 months ago

    I never understood the point of the poem. Years ago I drove to see Robert Frost's house. Just before the house is a fork in the road, and I took the wrong fork. When I realized my mistake, I turned around and took the other fork. What's the big deal?

  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    It means that sometimes curiosity about what is down the road no one uses might lead you to trouble. 

  • Anonymous
    4 months ago

    Nurse in Tennessee fainted after receiving COVID vaccine

    Question: why should we take it if it has such side effects?

    Nurse in Alaska had anaphylactic shock

    Trump and Biden are in cahoots to chip everyone via needles on the vaccines

    5G will kill vaccinated

    Population control = depopulation = Georgia Guide stones 500 million max population

    LA RESISTANCE ! ! !

    Doctor Fauci = son of Mother Theresa; Theresa supplied Jeffrey Epstein's island with kids to fondle with

    Adrenochrome will be extracted from dissidents in underground re-education camps; dissidents were taken there (when electricity was turned off for a few days) at 4AM after drone with scopolamine gassed them (Project Pogo and Project Zyphr)...

    Project Pogo = gov't shills Alex Jones, Qanon, Adam Green, etc. tell you something funny and you comment or like, then you'll be exterminated under Project Zyphr... David Goldberg revealed this and other stuff (like how Trump converted to Judaism) and he got executed..

    Source(s): COVID = COW ID; World Bank website says that Project COVID is from April 2nd, 2020 until 31st of March, 2025. According to the Last Prophet (aka incarnated ARCHANGEL URIEL aka saint healer VYACHESLAV KRASHENINNIKOV) if the last descendant rejects mark of the beast, then his/her direct ancestors go to permanent heaven. To reject mark of the beast, one needs to hide within a 10-15 people group without electronics/documents. Documents are from Satan; burn them. Electronics can be used to track you and to show the antichrist (even on old broken unplugged TV set from 1970's using Tesla's ether); forgive me.
  • 5 months ago

    It means that sometimes curiosity about what is down the road no one uses might lead you to trouble. 

  • Anonymous
    5 months ago

    I don't know why, but most everyone, Jerry Seinfeld included, misses the double-entendre the poem presents:

    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

    I took the one less traveled by,

    And that has made all the difference.

    The phrase "less traveled by" has two meanings: first, less used as a way of travel and, second, less passed by. Those are opposite meanings, because the first is the the road the least number of people travel and the second is the road that the least number pass by, meaning it's the road most people take, NOT the road the least number of people travel.

    Robert Frost is being ambiguous and so ambivalent in a poem about non-ambivalence, a poem making a definitive choice. So he is being pointedly ironic. Yet everybody assumes it's the first of the two above meanings and not the second and entirely misses Frost's humor and the irony, entirely misses that that isn't actually Robert Frost's message at all--

    Or if it is Robert Frost's message, it's only one of his messages, the other being the meaning Jerry Seinfeld is getting at with this tongue-in-cheek remark, despite his likewise misinterpretation. Jerry Seinfeld is actually ripping off Robert Frost here by stealing his joke, which I might say is Jerry Seinfeld himself being ironic if not for the fact that if this is actually his exact quote, he's omitted the word "by," the key word that "has made all the difference."

    SO, IN ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION and to be utterly clear about the other meaning Robert Frost conveys with the phrase "less traveled by," Jerry Seinfeld says that the reason a road is less traveled is generally for the extremely valid reason that it's less desirable, that there may even be cons to traveling that road that make it expressly undesirable for most.

    BY THE WAY, Robert Frost straight away tips his hand that the poem is going to be ambiguous and so ambivalent, quite literally, even quadrivalent, when he ambiguously says as the very first line, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood." That's because two roads diverging can be two roads going off into different directions from a single road, thus literally "ambivalent," OR CAN BE two roads that diverge into four roads, thus literally "quadrivalent." One way to read it, there's one road that splits into two roads, while the other way you to read it, there're two roads that split into four roads. By starting the poem this way, Frost is making it clear that the ambiguity and so ambivalence in how he ends the poem isn't an accident or happenstance but quite deliberate.

    FURTHEMORE, "it has made all the difference" is also ambiguous, both figuratively as well as quite literally because he uses the word "difference," whose meaning literally points to two separate things. People seem to read "it has made all the difference" as some positive outcome. "Difference" bears no positive connotation, though. He could just as well be saying that the outcome of his choice was negative, made a terrible difference, which Jerry Seinfeld also fails to see by his joke operating on an unfounded assumption that what he's comically asserting in it isn't what Frost meant.

    THIS POEM, DESPITE BEING SO POPULAR AND SO POPULARLY QUOTED, IS ONE OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD POEMS IN ALL OF LITERATURE EVEN THOUGH IT'S PLAIN AS DAY!

  • Anonymous
    5 months ago

    It means that if there's two ways to live life and one is done a lot less than the other than it's for a good reason

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