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.
Wow, this poem is almost as deep as mine. Almost. It describes the abberation that occurs in one person's travels through the woods, where the character chooses a less traveled path, being adverse from the typical socialistic decision. It represents the psychological and social dilemma that adheres to us when facing the decision of following the path chosen by others, or making your own path and being and indidualist. Although we all may strive to be the latter, most people choose the first due to our conservative nature and our eternal appetite to be ordinary people.
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ReplyDeleteI printed out the same poem!! This is quite the classic and is really important because of the message it portrays, the message that we shouldn't always follow the predetermined path, but forge our own. This is something i believe each of us must learn at some point in our life. Or else what is keeping us from all becoming mindless drones (lol).
ReplyDeleteThis is a very formal poem, you can tell because of the equal line breaks/stanza length. This formality lends to the image of the poem, it seems kind of sterile and clean cut to me. Not like OMG PRETTY TREE IN THE FOREST OMG!, like some other poems might be. However, the forest isn't really the main focus of the poem, as the metaphor presented is the main attraction, so this is not surprising. In addition to this, Robert Frost is an old poet who would have used a more antiquated style, as opposed to contemporary poets.
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