The Road Not Taken (by Robert Frost)

 

"The Road Not Taken"

By 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 for the first of 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.

 

Author's Note

Another one of my favorite Robert Frost poems!!

Reviews

[Gabi Celaya]

Great poem, quite possibly Frost's greatest. You've got to love both the ironic and literal ways this poem can be interpreted.
I know you didn't write this, so I probably shouldn't rate it, but I'm going to for the sake of there finally being something on this site that deserves such a high rating.