The Road Less Traveled

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Frost was annoyed because people interpret his poem as some proclamation of individualism. He meant to only talk about the great regret of having to choose between true roads or whatever. So you could say that people who think of this as some expression of individualism are wrong, but Frost holds us that that's not what he meant.

What’s the meaning of a work of art? Does the text mean just what the author intends it to mean? Does it matter what Kubrick and Arthur C. Clark thinks about the end of 2001? Or is the artist’s interpretation just one interpretation among many once the text is out in the world? We explore the question of authorial intent, and brace yourselves - this is just about as postmodern as David gets.

Plus – do we have what it takes to get an invite to the thought criminals club?

Links

The Party is Canceled [newyorker.com]

Was I Wrong About The Irishman? by Thomas Flight [youtube.com]

Authorial Intent [wikipedia.org]