2007-04-20

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

I read a story about a foreigner who rides his bicycle about 120 km to a farway elementary school to teach English in Taiwan. In the end the reporter quoted this poem "The Road Not Taken". Especially for the last two sentences "I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.". It takes a lot of courage to choose the road that less traveled by. Life is all about making choices.

Below is the whole poem.
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.

1 comment:

  1. This poem is an important reminder to me . Thanks you very much . I think we should choose the road by ourselves , not only affected by somebody ! Then, we cab enjoy it fully !

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