My Favorite Poem
I dunno what it is about this poem, but it has never left my mind, my soul or my heart since the first time it was explained to us by our literature teacher in school.
I'm just copying the whole poem (source: http://www.bartleby.com/104/67.html) because I can never have enough of this masterpiece... especially the final para.
The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
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.
This poem is beautiful! Truly a source of inspiration for those who have, in their lives, decided to walk the road not taken. All my life, I've had to face questions like "You're a good student right? Then why did you take ARTS???" and "You want to be a housewife?"
ReplyDeleteSomewhere ages and ages hence, I will know that I have touched many more lives than I would have, had I chosen the conventional path and been the girl who became an engineer and got a job at a software company and had an arranged marriage with another software engineer and finally settled in the US!
-Anisha :)