Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Road less travelled

I have been taken up by this beautiful poem by Robert Frost .His poems have always en captured me and changed the way i think . I have put this one down here . Go through it and think meditate on it for a while . Somehow it summaries all that we need to do , life , the way we think , how we shrug off responsibility and other things , left to our imagination.


1. 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; 5

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, 10

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. 15

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. 20



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good start.. Welcome to Blogosphere!!
The best thing about this Frost poem is he never says whether he made a right decision or not he only says "And that has made all the difference!!".Expecting an analogy between the poem and ur life in ur next post!!!

Elizabeth Priya John said...

Thnx bala!!