A path not taken

[eagle7-31]

Had Davis not ordered the firing on Sumter in April 1861. The south would have still lost but in different way. Lincoln would be left without a unifying call to arms.

 

[IM2]

This is the real path not taken that would have prevented the civil war from happening in the first place.

'The Road Not Taken', by Lerone Bennett

 

[Dante]

 

[Dante]

This is the real path not taken that would have prevented the civil war from happening in the first place.

'The Road Not Taken', by Lerone Bennett

Most people like the OP, are confused over the meaning "The Path Not Taken."

The Poem and the poet:
"Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,"

Later in the poem, the speaker calls the road he chose “less traveled,” and it does initially strike him as slightly grassier, slightly less trafficked. As soon as he makes this claim, however, he doubles back, erasing the distinction even as he makes it: “Though as for that the passing there / Had worn them really about the same.”


Frost then reiterates that the two roads are comparable, observing—this time—that the roads are equally untraveled, carpeted in newly fallen yellow leaves:

"And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black."

Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken”

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[Dante]

Had Davis not ordered the firing on Sumter in April 1861. The south would have still lost but in different way. Lincoln would be left without a unifying call to arms.

That kind of speculation is at best hilariously amusing, and terribly ignorant of the historical context.

 

[eagle7-31]

That kind of speculation is at best hilariously amusing, and terribly ignorant of the historical context.

Perhaps, but there was debate whether or not to fire on Ft. Sumter.

 

[Dante]

Perhaps, but there was debate whether or not to fire on Ft. Sumter.

I have not read up on that. Have a link to something on the debate, that I can start with?

note: eagle7-31 ???

 

[Dante]

I have not read up on that. Have a link to something on the debate, that I can start with?

note: eagle7-31 ???

I guess not. I'll start research on my own.