Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Robert Frost - 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;

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,

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.

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.

I've read this poem in literature class and I love it still. This poem is talking about choice. In the begining, "Two roads" means there are a lot of choices in our life but we only can choose one which we really want. The second paragraph means after you choose a goal and you look back to other choices, you find actually there are no difference at all. The third paragraph means we don't know the outcome before we make the decision, also after we choice one goal, we cannot sure whether we will feel regret or not and doubted if we should come back to the begining. The final paragraph says we will look back from the start and realize that if we choice another road at first time, the consequence will be totally different. I think the summary of this poem means there are many choices in our whole life, but after you make the decision there is no way to start over again.

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