funny, I just brought up "The Oven Bird" in another thread. Frost on the brain.

I think "The Road Not Taken" would definitely qualify as, if not the most disliked, definitely the most misunderstood American poem. Of course there is no difference between the two roads, and even if there might be, there is certainly no way of knowing. All those college essays.

I have also had the experience that students really dislike The Red Wheelbarrow. Of course that poem is in some ways harder to understand having been removed from its original context in Spring and All.

Though I also think that poem is a great one to teach. Everyone comes up with these crazy explanations for it, when in fact the whole poem is right there. What depends on a red wheelbarrow? So much!!