♥ Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The Road Not Travelled
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.
This poem basically talks about making choices. He says that we cannot have the best of both worlds, and must choose one. Then he talked about looking far beyond the path and then deciding whether he wanted to go down the path, which means to think twice before making a decision. He then moved on and on and pondered over if he should return. Then, he has mixed feelings about his choice many years later, which was the one less travelled, which means a rougher path is better, and has made a huge difference in his life.
I like this because it uses a lot of figurative language, and is easier to understand as compared to other poems. This also chooses a specific topic which appears in our daily lives as part of what we do everyday. This makes me appreciate the poem more as it applies to me in what I do.
Tsun Lok
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