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The Road Not Taken

GaryKelly said
12:48 PM Jun 10, 2013

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.

-- Edited by GaryKelly on Monday 10th of June 2013 12:50:49 PM

Duh said
03:12 PM Jun 10, 2013

Very nice Gary, here is a spoken version of that poem....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3esjTgR2W2E

-- Edited by Duh on Monday 10th of June 2013 03:13:04 PM

GaryKelly said
05:28 PM Jun 10, 2013

Well done Vic. Here's another one, this time with word animation.

-- Edited by GaryKelly on Monday 10th of June 2013 05:29:25 PM

Grams said
09:36 PM Jun 10, 2013

I love it. I am always telling my children, they get choices in their lives, it is up to them to chose their paths and make the most of it. If we make a wrong choice, there is usually another path to take that may improve our lot. But the choice is always ours.

baute said
04:09 AM Jun 11, 2013

Hi I don't comment much on here but this poem is significant to me. I studied this for year 12 English many moons ago and it did not mean much then. I was more interested in the book A Fortunate Life as a topic however it is funny how life turns. This poem now has so much more meaning as one looks back on life and where we have been and where we are going. I used this as the opening page to my slide shows of travels over the last few years. Feel free to see how I have used this poem on my personal travel page. This page mainly set up for family. http://whereintheworldareyou.weebly.com/index.html

GaryKelly said
08:59 AM Jun 11, 2013

baute wrote:
Hi I don't comment much on here but this poem is significant to me. I studied this for year 12 English many moons ago and it did not mean much then. I was more interested in the book A Fortunate Life as a topic however it is funny how life turns. This poem now has so much more meaning as one looks back on life and where we have been and where we are going. I used this as the opening page to my slide shows of travels over the last few years. Feel free to see how I have used this poem on my personal travel page. This page mainly set up for family. http://whereintheworldareyou.weebly.com/index.html

-- Edited by GaryKelly on Tuesday 11th of June 2013 09:02:49 AM

-- Edited by GaryKelly on Tuesday 11th of June 2013 09:04:13 AM

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