THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

I'm not one of those highly culturally intelligent people who read loads of shakespeare (did I even spell that right?) Ibsen, and..oh, you know the rest,,those important writers whose books we were forced to read when we we're in high school. However, I do have a favorite poem =)

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN 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....... Robert Frost (1874–1963)