The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken – wiersz amerykańskiego poety Roberta Frosta napisany w 1915 i opublikowany w zbiorze Mountain Interval (1916).

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost
Autor	Robert Frost
Tematyka	poezja
Wydanie oryginalne
Język	angielski
Data wydania	1916

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Wiersz The Road Not Taken, otwiera zbiór Mountain Interval. Napisany tetrametrem jambicznym, w każdej z czterech zwrotek stosuje schemat rymów ABAAB. Wiersz przedstawia narratora wspominającego podróż przez las, kiedy to musiał wybrać, którą z dwóch rozchodzących się dróg pojechać. Znaczenie dzieła od dawna jest przedmiotem sporów. Sam Frost twierdził, że była to parodia poety Edwarda Thomasa z Georgii.

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.