The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost : The Poetry Foundation

This is a well-known Amerian poem about making decisions! (All American students read it as part of their literature courses.)

On the site you can listen to a recording of the poet himself, Robert Frost, reading it just before his death in 1963. Do you know other poems by him or other American poets? Do you know e.e. cummings' work? He's another poet I like.

(Have you heard the expression, "Good fences make good neighbors"? That's from an other Frost poem.)

Have a good long holiday weekend.
james


The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost : The Poetry Foundation:

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.