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Class A: Poetry Academic English 201853
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
(1874-1963)
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.
Class A: Poetry
Academic English 201853
未选择的路
The
Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
黄色的树林里分出两条路，
And sorry I could not travel both
可惜我不能同时去涉足，
And be one traveler, long I
stood
我在那路口久久伫立，
And looked down one as
far as I could
我向着一条路极目望去，
To where it
bent in the undergrowth. 直到它消失在丛林深处。
Then took the other, as just as fair,
但我选了另外一条路，
And having perhaps the better
claim, 它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂，
Because it was grassy and
wanted wear; 显得更诱人，更美丽；
Though as for that the
passing there
虽然在这两条小路上，
Had worn them
really about the same.
都很少留下旅人的足迹。
And both that morning equally lay
那天清晨落叶满地，
In leaves no step had trodden
black. 两条路都未经脚印污染。
Oh, I kept the first for
another day!
啊，留下一条路等改日再见！
Yet knowing how
way leads on to way,
但我知道路径延绵无尽头，
I
doubted if I should ever come back.
恐怕我难以再回返。
I shall be telling this with a sigh
也许多少年后在某个地方，
Somewhere ages and ages
hence:
我将轻声叹息将往事回顾：
Two roads diverged in
a wood, and I--
一片树林里分出两条路——
I took the
one less traveled by,
而我选择了人迹更少的一条，
And
that has made all the difference.
从此决定了我一生的道路。
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Class A: Poetry
Academic English 201853
Analysis
kind
of photographic depiction of a quiet moment in
woods. It consists of four stanzas of 5 lines
each. The first line rhymes with the third and
fourth, and the second line rhymes with the fifth
(a b
a a b). The meter is basically iambic
tetrameter, with each line having four two-
syllable feet.
Though in almost every line, in
different positions, an iamb is replaced with an
anapest. The
variation of the rhythm gives
naturalness, a feeling of thought occurring
spontaneously, and it also
affects the
reader's sense of expectation.
[3]
In the
only line that contains strictly iambs, the more
regular rhythm supports the idea of a turning
towards an acceptance of a kind of reality:
as
for that the passing there … together is
significantly different, and catches the
reader off guard.
[4]
It is one of
Frost's most popular works. Some have said that it
is one of his most misunderstood
poems,
claiming that it is not simply a poem that
champions the idea of
but that the poem, they
suggest, expresses some irony regarding that
idea.
[5][1]
Frost's biographer
Lawrance Thompson suggests that the poem's
narrator is
wastes energy in regretting any
choice made: belatedly but wistfully he sighs over
the attractive
alternative rejected
[6]
Thompson also says that when introducing the poem
in readings, Frost
would say that the speaker
was based on his friend Edward Thomas. In Frost's
words, Thomas was
[7]
Regarding
the
or of satisfaction, but there is
significance in the difference between what the
speaker has just said
of the two roads, and
what he will say in the future.
[8]
According to biographer Lawrence
Thompson, as
Frost was once about to read the poem, he
commented to his audience,
to be careful of
that one; it's a tricky poem — very
tricky,
poem's ironic
possibilities.
[6][9]
A New York Times
Sunday book review on Brian Hall's 2008
biography Fall of Frost states:
the other
path.
[10]