Sunday, December 9, 2012

Poem Jealousy

I basically know nothing about famous poets or poetry in general. I usually like poetry it's just not what I usually choose to read. My favorite poem is The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost. My dad read me this poem when I was a kid and it has stuck with me ever since.   The Road Not Taken


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, 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 travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.


This poem talks about how the popular decision isn't always the decision that is right for you. Sometimes you need to go against the grain and do what you want to do. One part I really like is the third stanza because it shows that either way the choice is going to have a big impact on your life because one decision leads to another.

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