so i wanted to share this poem & review by one of my favorite poet
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 feet 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 is one of my favorites poems because it has to do with Decision ,decisions...In this poem the poet highlights the problem of choice which every person has to face in his or her life at some point or the other. This one of the reviews i found by buta that i really agreed with . "A man comes to a forked road on the way he was traveling upon. He feels sorry he cannot travel both the paths as he has to choose one of them. This decision will prove to be his future. As he thinks about the two roads, he looks down one path and finds that, that path has been much traveled and then he sees the other less traveled path. He decides
that the less traveled path would be much
rewarding when he reaches its end. He knows that one path leads to another and it is very difficult to return. Years later, he would be telling his future generation with regret what life would have been if he would have walked the other road, the one which was not taken by him. "What ever road one chooses, the regret will remain since at a given time one can walk only one path.
Whats your opinion & what do you think the author its trying to portray in his poem ?
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park in
Inwood,
Upper Manhattan,
New York City, operated by the
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
