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Question: read the poem, A Road Not Taken by Robert frost and how does this apply to thoughts of Len?

One of the quintessential poems of the American Romantic period. In many ways I think Len's worldview fits in with that time period, albeit in a more modern constant: he is constantly pausing to self-reflect and would choose to be true to himself rather than confine himself to the constraints of the status quo. Honestly I know more about Romantic music than poetry, but what I do know is that music became much more emotional than the often boring and predictable chord progressions and melodies of the Enlightenment. After Beethoven, it wasn't about imposing control on these sounds to make a highly ordered composition, but ars gratia artis.

Len's life I think exemplifies that--he isn't doing some boring unethical lawyer or lobbyist job like most of my friends' Ivy-League educated parents in DC; instead, he is using his incredible gifts of education and intellect to find meaning in poetry and to help others do the same. Rather than following the well-trodden path of other Princeton '92 people who may or may not be making the world a better place, Len is pushing himself and others to find meaning in the chaos of Earth 2020.