Bonus points if it’s usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it

  • Bilbo Baggins@hobbit.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s the thing. Being just as fair doesn’t necessarily imply it’s equally travelled. Even being worn the same doesn’t necessarily mean equally traveled, although it strongly implies it. I think the final line is so certain that it overrides the earlier lines and implies to the unwary reader that these similar paths actually were differently travelled.

    I don’t expect self contradiction in a story / poem. So that certainty of there being a difference overrides all.

    It’s only after reading the author’s intentions that I know for sure that the contradiction was intended and that was actually the point of the poem.

    As I said before, this makes me like the poem even more now.