On Poems : The Road Not Taken

***** Though a friendly ear and advice would do great to soothe my worries or ruffle my feathers. I am the kind of person who would look back for a passage or poem that encourages me to go on, coursing through life as it is. Here, is the poem that I learned from my Language Arts professor back in college. Though I do not know this poem by heart, it surely reminds me that 'The road less traveled by has made all the difference'.

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