If you doubt that the show’s writers intended that subtext, consider Piper’s comment that the speaker of the poem is telling his story “at a dinner party.” Orange Is the New Black is very conscious of its main character’s degree of privilege-and the writers are clever enough to poke fun of it even when Piper is in the middle of being right about something (such as, for instance, a Robert Frost poem). Her less affluent fellow inmates, whose choices frequently have grave and irreparable consequences, don’t have the luxury of such fatalism. It’s easy for her to say that, “in reality, shit just happens the way that it happens,” and that people’s choices don’t really matter. She’s serving one year in prison, after which she’ll have a number of choices to make about her future. Piper is unusual among the prisoners in Orange Is the New Black in that she comes from a well-heeled family and has a fancy college education. Heartwarming illustrations of a young boy journeying through a yellow wood accompany the original text of the poem. From The Road Not Taken to Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, he refined and even defined. For all of life's adventures comes The Road Not Taken, which The New York Times Book Review calls 'a book that begs rereading.' This beautifully illustrated companion is inspired by Robert Frost's perennial poem. Some say this poem represents the quintessential American expression of free will, but many get its meaning wrong. That terrifying commercial brings me back to why Tricia is right to be annoyed by Piper and her lecture. No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost - Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked d.
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