Poetry Friday
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
Robert Frost
One of my all time favourites! Thanks, Marie!
Any time I feel in doubt about my choices, I read this and feel better because we always choose the path we’re meant to walk.
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I had forgotten how wonderful the poem is. It was a case of familiarity bred indifference but reading it over today, I am so inspired by its wisdom.
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Couldn’t resist posting this little paragraph I read about this poem.
“Frost claims that he wrote this poem about his friend Edward Thomas, with whom he had walked many times in the woods near London. Frost has said that while walking they would come to different paths and after choosing one, Thomas would always fret wondering what they might have missed by not taking the other path.”
I love this poem, simply because it doesn’t sermonize about choice; it mentions that choices are available for us to decide upon, but we would never know what our choice will result in until we’ve lived it.
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Somnath, as always you enhance our understanding so beautifully – thank you!
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Another wonderfully wise and inspiring Friday poem – I love your choices and wait eagerly for Fridays.
Thanks
Philippa
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I am always open to suggestions Philippa and Jackie 🙂
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Of course! Classic Robert Frost. Oooh, do you take requests? Maybe “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” sometime?
This is too much fun. I always look forward to Poetry Fridays. Thank you.
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That is actually my favorite Frost poem, Jackie 🙂
“The Road’ is cool to me in terms of Pink Kitchen right now. Would have been easier to pick a ‘safe’ career. We’ll see where the pink road goes!
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You are living the words of the poem Lisa and that is so cool!
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Oh I am so glad Jackie that you do..and I haven’t forgotten that it was poetry that brought us together in the blogosphere 🙂
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Marie, Also one of my favorites here. Thank you for positng this classic. Somehow it feels as if cancer was my fork in the road and I’m trying to find my way down this unfamiliar to me path.
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I think so many of us can relate to that!
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