Thursday, October 1, 2009

One of My Four Chosen Poems

AGH! It's so hard for me to pick just one because I really liked all four of my poems. One of the more touching and easier to read ones thought is The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. I feel like everyone can relate to it a little bit, because it's about being at a "fork in the road" and having to decide which way to go in life. Everyone has tough choices to make that can change their entire life, so I feel like this poem is really special. I also like that Robert Frost makes the point of taking the road less traveled by, or in other words, the harder, less popular way. Although it may be tough to take this way, it can pay off in the end. It's kind of like deciding whether or not to go to college. Do and be in debt for quite some time but end up getting a good job later on, OR don't go to college, don't take out loans for a "piece of paper" (aka diploma) and live off an okay job for the rest of your life. Going to school is hard, but in the end it pays off. ANYWAY, here's the poem:

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.

Also, if interested, here are the other poems I read and really found interesting:
Reasons by Thomas James
Bleeding by May Swenson
Being in Love by Chungmi Kim

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