Wednesday, April 27

Where our Lives May lead us...look on with a smile

Robert Frost (1874–1963).  Mountain Interval.  1920.
 
The Road Not Taken
 
 
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;        5
 
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,        10
 
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.        15
 
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.  

1 comment:

  1. hehehe. I've read this poem twice to myself.. and each time, i thought of something other than what the author probably meant.

    I'm not sure what his difference is positive or negative.

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