This week on OLOL Jay and Gail enjoy a quirky stroll with Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken.
Will you walk along?
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 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.
OLOL’s Prompt Invitation
Answer one or more of the following questions:
What one line would you get tattooed on your arm?
What one line makes you feel nervous?
What one line wins the “Here Comes the Sun” Award?
Is this a poem about regret or triumph?
What shoes will you wear into a yellow wood?
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