Friday, April 8, 2011

A common poem but I love it

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-road-not-taken/
"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 marked 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








This is probably one of Robert Frost more well known poems. The first time I read this poem I was in eighth grade in my English teacher's class room. It made me realize that we, as people, need to take chances and "take the road less traveled". Otherwise we will always have that thought in the back of our minds "what if". That question will be the death of some people.

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