In general, life brings us two choices, two different ways that we should decide and choose one without knowing what the end even the next step will be. Our life consists of all our preferences. Choosing our life partner and our carrier or all our qualifications are the most difficult and important ones. Our character plays an important role on our choices. There is also an unknown mystery of "chance" in our lives.
Road at Chantilly by Paul Cezanne
I chose a poem for you. Here is the poem and the interpretation afterwards:
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
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 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.
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.
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.
by Robert Frost
Here is the interpretation line by line but this may change from person to person:
1. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
The narrator probably standing at a fork sees two roads which split going different ways. These two roads are in a yellow wood, it is yellow as it is autumn, the leaves on the roads and the trees are yellow, not green. This maybe means the poet is not very young.
2. And sorry I could not travel both 3.And be one traveler,
The narrator wishes he could go down both roads as one traveller but he can’t, because then he'd have to split himself in two.
4. long I stood, and looked down one as far as I could 5.To where it bent in the undergrowth;
For a long time the narrator stands at the fork and examines one of the roads as far as he can. But he can't see the end of the road because the road curves away out of his sight.
6. Then took the other,
He takes the "Second Road", not the one he examined.
7.as just as fair,
This one is just as good as the "First Road"
8. And having perhaps the better claim, 9.Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
This "Second Road" may be more deserving of the narrator walking down it as there was grass and seemed to have wanted him to walk on it.
10. Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same.
Both the "First Road" and "Second Road" were equally worn down by people walking down them.Namely,grassy "Second Road" was walked on as much as the first road.
11.And both that morning equally lay 12.In leaves no step had trodden black.
Both roads were equally not stepped on and walked on as the leaves on the ground weren't crushed by people walking on them, breaking them up on that morning.
13.Oh, I kept the first for another day!
He wanted to save traveling on the "First Road" that he examined for another day in the future.He decided to take the Second Road now but couldn’t give up the first one and he wanted to give it a shot next time.
14.Yet knowing how way leads on to way, 15.I doubted if I should ever come back.
But he is not sure this will come true as when he takes the second road, that road will lead to another fork. He knows he'll encounter other future road choices so he thinks he's unlikely to ever come back to see what this first road is like.
16. I shall be telling this with a sigh 17. Somewhere ages and ages hence:
In the future, when he's much older, he will remember and tell about this decision he is making now with a sigh. “Sigh” may mean satisfaction, pleasure or regret?
18. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- 19.I took the one less traveled by,
He will say that there were these two roads going two different ways in a wood and he took the less traveled one.
20. And that has made all the difference.
He changed his life taking the less traveled road. But we don’t know if that was a good or bad or neither good nor bad difference.The choice of the Second Road has a great impact on his life for sure.
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