1/21/09
Nothing interesting happened today. I'll just interpret a literature piece.
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 a strange poem of almost no significance if just looked and read once. Only when you read it multiple times, have a knack for spotting literary art or read deeper, do you find another meaning inside of it. This is a poem called “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, a celebrated American Poet of the 20th Century. “The Road Not Taken” was written in 1916. The most well known interpretation was the one that I got on my first impression of the poem. It signifies the paths that one takes in life and shows how once someone makes their choice, there is no turning back. The person in this poem took “the road less traveled by” signifying that he made a choice less chosen by other people, and later, he regrets the fact that he couldn’t have taken both, stating a common human dilemma. The desire to relive life has grasped people’s imaginations for much time. This poem just set this experience to a literal level. Robert Frost said that this was a tricky poem to interpret.
Nothing interesting happened today. I'll just interpret a literature piece.
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 a strange poem of almost no significance if just looked and read once. Only when you read it multiple times, have a knack for spotting literary art or read deeper, do you find another meaning inside of it. This is a poem called “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, a celebrated American Poet of the 20th Century. “The Road Not Taken” was written in 1916. The most well known interpretation was the one that I got on my first impression of the poem. It signifies the paths that one takes in life and shows how once someone makes their choice, there is no turning back. The person in this poem took “the road less traveled by” signifying that he made a choice less chosen by other people, and later, he regrets the fact that he couldn’t have taken both, stating a common human dilemma. The desire to relive life has grasped people’s imaginations for much time. This poem just set this experience to a literal level. Robert Frost said that this was a tricky poem to interpret.
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