@jccoolisback Yes actually it was. I didn't particularly care for the poem and my professor completely disagreed with my interpretation of the poem even though almost the entire class agreed with me. And it was supposed to just be how i interpreter the poem. It is what it is but i didn't care for it. To each their own.
I shouldn't have listened to this tonight, Just finished reading 'Death of a Salesman' for the first time. Life is so many choices; but those choices are so shaped by past (generation before generation) that it's daunting. Anyway to contribute to life's happy cycle - I've just uploaded a reading of George Sterling's 1906 masterpiece 'A Wine of Wizardry'. Feel free to check it out (follow username or just search), if you haven't read/hear it - it's like stumbling upon Camus or Foster-Wallace.
two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry i could not travel both and be one travler, long i stood.and looked down the other as far as i could to where it bent into the undergrowth. then took the other as just as fair and perhaps having the better claim. because it was grassy and wanted wear though as for that the passing theirhad worn them about the same.and both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodded black.
This poem isn't about choosing the least travaled path and doing your own thing, it's about retrospection. He's looking back on his life and realizing that a decision he made, at one point in his life, lead him to where he finally got. It evens tells you at the end of the poem. It says, " And I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." He didn't say if the difference was good or bad. He simply said it was different than the other way her could have gone.
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i always think about this poem everytime im going to make a big descision i always try to do what no one ever has, i love the last line how it says *i took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the diffrence.
If you think that you are being the rebel, liberated individual, or the original individual by being a slacker or lazy ass who is always looking for an easy way or, in some cases, never moving to go in either way, then you are a fool. The world could not care less about you and your Rebelness; they laugh at you, and not with you.
The guy knew more than likely that the first path would lead him rightly so, but because he saw undergrowth; he thought he may have to sweat or get a scratch or two and chose the other.
Some may call this an independent thinker and a rebel, but most call it a lazy-ass sloth.
is this---If the traveler in the furture realizes that he has not lived his life to the fullest or accomplished the things he wanted or would have liked to accomplish, then it was because he himself chose his own course. it is basically like the saying " No pain, no gain." We are faced with choices in our lives and we are the authors of our own lives.
If we exepct everything to be easy and facile and fall into place, then we are mislead.
I think it signifies, or is symbolic, of people wanting an easy way out. Always looking for an easy way: something for nothing, more for less, etc. And albeit to find an easler way is fine, if that easier way is just as efficient and correct as any other. But the traveler noticed that the first path led through some underbrush (if you will listen to the poem closely) So he chose the easeir, cleaner looking one in trying to avoid exerting a little effort. So essentially what the poem is saying...
@heato82 Why would you think this is garbage??! I just want to know, is it because it's one of your homework assignments?? I think Robert Frost is the best American poet of all time, and YES, I've had his works as assignments myself.
@jblw: I agree. He doesn't praise himself, he doesnt claim his path were truly worn less, he just wonders. And we wonder. There are so many choices, and life is so short. And many choices make all the difference.
I don't see this as a poem about individualism. It's called the "The Road Not Taken." He's wondering about the life he could have led if he had chosen another or "the other" path. He didn't say if the difference was good or bad. He simply says that the decision itself will make the difference.
Take a moment to listen to this short poem by Robert Frost.. "The Road Not Taken" also know as "The Road Less Traveled". Sit back, shut your eyes and let the words paint a picture in your mind. Relax and enjoy!
I LOVE this poem!!! As days goes by, and as I grow older, I realize that every phase of my life contains an experience where I have to choose between two roads! Sometimes I'm too coward, to I take the road everyone takes, but at other times I know how to build the courage, take the risk, and choose the "road less traveled by," and this made me the person I am today; it simply "made ALL the difference." TAKE A RISK, DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, NO MATTER WHAT OTHERS MIGHT THINK OF YOU! It's YOUR life!
@LeenaAga100 While I think poetry is entirely subjective and open to individual interpretation, I think you've made a common mistake in deciphering this poem. The final stanza is the key here. Frost is saying that once you choose a road, there will be more forks to come, and you will never know what the other road entailed. He doesn't know that the road he's taken is truly less traveled. He is mocking older people by saying that no matter what road you take,
@LeenaAga100 you always say you took the one less traveled. Whether you know it is or it isn't, you are where you are in the end. His choice has to take the road less traveled has not made all the difference, people just like to think it did. The other road could have led to ever greater prosperity, but one will never know for sure.
My interpretation of this poem is a reflection of cause and effect, and how a simple decision a long time ago, can affect the course of one's entire life, and we'll never know the course our lives would have taken if one mindless decision had been made differently.
What's even worse is that I doubt that even a soul in your quadrant of the globe would even know that this masterpiece of expression was a mainstay in our scholarly agenda once upon a time when people read actual pages for pleasure. What a lot of corporate cocksuckers people have developed themselves into becoming. Everyone is always so fucking lazy. What's next on the school curriculum? How to cheat Coleridge by making a rap called Rhyme of the Ancient MuthaFucka?
two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry i could not travle both and be one travler long i stood, and looked down one as far as i could, to where it bent in the undergrowh; then took the other as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim because it was ggrassy and wanted ware, though as for that the passing there had warn them reallyabout 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, to roads diverged in a wood and i- i took the one less travled by, and that has made all the difference.
Have to remember this by tommorrow. what fun!
74Oro74 1 week ago
fucking love this.
keg10609 2 weeks ago
lmao its obviously about him confused about his sexuality!
RandomCatLover100 1 month ago
This is gay, ur all gay
MrJflj11 1 month ago
@jccoolisback Yes actually it was. I didn't particularly care for the poem and my professor completely disagreed with my interpretation of the poem even though almost the entire class agreed with me. And it was supposed to just be how i interpreter the poem. It is what it is but i didn't care for it. To each their own.
heato82 2 months ago
I shouldn't have listened to this tonight, Just finished reading 'Death of a Salesman' for the first time. Life is so many choices; but those choices are so shaped by past (generation before generation) that it's daunting. Anyway to contribute to life's happy cycle - I've just uploaded a reading of George Sterling's 1906 masterpiece 'A Wine of Wizardry'. Feel free to check it out (follow username or just search), if you haven't read/hear it - it's like stumbling upon Camus or Foster-Wallace.
maurice2002 3 months ago
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maurice2002 3 months ago
two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry i could not travel both and be one travler, long i stood.and looked down the other as far as i could to where it bent into the undergrowth. then took the other as just as fair and perhaps having the better claim. because it was grassy and wanted wear though as for that the passing theirhad worn them about the same.and both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodded black.
Coolguy66ish 4 months ago
This poem isn't about choosing the least travaled path and doing your own thing, it's about retrospection. He's looking back on his life and realizing that a decision he made, at one point in his life, lead him to where he finally got. It evens tells you at the end of the poem. It says, " And I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." He didn't say if the difference was good or bad. He simply said it was different than the other way her could have gone.
ijreilly01 4 months ago
@ijreilly01 *traveled* and *led*. yuck.
ijreilly01 4 months ago
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vividDC 5 months ago
i always think about this poem everytime im going to make a big descision i always try to do what no one ever has, i love the last line how it says *i took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the diffrence.
dayawakesupexhausted 7 months ago
Go for the F__cking Gusto people; you only live once, shit!
DeMarkieSade 8 months ago
If you think that you are being the rebel, liberated individual, or the original individual by being a slacker or lazy ass who is always looking for an easy way or, in some cases, never moving to go in either way, then you are a fool. The world could not care less about you and your Rebelness; they laugh at you, and not with you.
DeMarkieSade 8 months ago
The guy knew more than likely that the first path would lead him rightly so, but because he saw undergrowth; he thought he may have to sweat or get a scratch or two and chose the other.
Some may call this an independent thinker and a rebel, but most call it a lazy-ass sloth.
DeMarkieSade 8 months ago
is this---If the traveler in the furture realizes that he has not lived his life to the fullest or accomplished the things he wanted or would have liked to accomplish, then it was because he himself chose his own course. it is basically like the saying " No pain, no gain." We are faced with choices in our lives and we are the authors of our own lives.
If we exepct everything to be easy and facile and fall into place, then we are mislead.
DeMarkieSade 8 months ago
I think it signifies, or is symbolic, of people wanting an easy way out. Always looking for an easy way: something for nothing, more for less, etc. And albeit to find an easler way is fine, if that easier way is just as efficient and correct as any other. But the traveler noticed that the first path led through some underbrush (if you will listen to the poem closely) So he chose the easeir, cleaner looking one in trying to avoid exerting a little effort. So essentially what the poem is saying...
DeMarkieSade 8 months ago
Frost
DeMarkieSade 8 months ago
I love it..."and that made all the difference" For all the followers out there..
celesteaida48 10 months ago
Garbage.
heato82 10 months ago
@heato82 i agree man
earthwolf100 10 months ago
@heato82 Perhaps...but what garbage!
celesteaida48 10 months ago
@heato82 Why would you think this is garbage??! I just want to know, is it because it's one of your homework assignments?? I think Robert Frost is the best American poet of all time, and YES, I've had his works as assignments myself.
jccoolisback 3 months ago
This is a great poem. I have to memorize this as a school assignment. Another good Robert Frost Poem is "Stopping in the Woods on a Snowy Evening"
koreansushininja 11 months ago
hell yea .
joebstarsurfer 1 year ago
@jblw: I agree. He doesn't praise himself, he doesnt claim his path were truly worn less, he just wonders. And we wonder. There are so many choices, and life is so short. And many choices make all the difference.
nhardigg 1 year ago
I don't see this as a poem about individualism. It's called the "The Road Not Taken." He's wondering about the life he could have led if he had chosen another or "the other" path. He didn't say if the difference was good or bad. He simply says that the decision itself will make the difference.
jblw189 1 year ago
wonderful....
flohthemachine 1 year ago
Love this poem~Thank you for sharing*~~~
all4musica 1 year ago
Great!
Jayoung1000 1 year ago
This is such a powerful poem, it has so much meaning. I love hearing it.
Kayla119petrey 1 year ago
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Kayla119petrey 1 year ago
So wheres the irony??
youiable 1 year ago
this is quite lovely. it's one of my favorite poems! Thank you for sharing this.
phunkofphilly 1 year ago
Take a moment to listen to this short poem by Robert Frost.. "The Road Not Taken" also know as "The Road Less Traveled". Sit back, shut your eyes and let the words paint a picture in your mind. Relax and enjoy!
Mobile757 1 year ago
This is one of my favorite poems <33
and this is the best reading for it :)
Thanks :)
Yanasoo 1 year ago
I LOVE this poem!!! As days goes by, and as I grow older, I realize that every phase of my life contains an experience where I have to choose between two roads! Sometimes I'm too coward, to I take the road everyone takes, but at other times I know how to build the courage, take the risk, and choose the "road less traveled by," and this made me the person I am today; it simply "made ALL the difference." TAKE A RISK, DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, NO MATTER WHAT OTHERS MIGHT THINK OF YOU! It's YOUR life!
LeenaAga100 1 year ago
@LeenaAga100 While I think poetry is entirely subjective and open to individual interpretation, I think you've made a common mistake in deciphering this poem. The final stanza is the key here. Frost is saying that once you choose a road, there will be more forks to come, and you will never know what the other road entailed. He doesn't know that the road he's taken is truly less traveled. He is mocking older people by saying that no matter what road you take,
PsychedelicScenery 1 year ago
@LeenaAga100 you always say you took the one less traveled. Whether you know it is or it isn't, you are where you are in the end. His choice has to take the road less traveled has not made all the difference, people just like to think it did. The other road could have led to ever greater prosperity, but one will never know for sure.
PsychedelicScenery 1 year ago
As a french-speaking Quebecer, I don't know much about American poets... But I think that this is a truly beautiful text. :)
LorinaDante 1 year ago
I had to memorize 1 of 3 poems and picked this one. It was for my final exam and got a 100%
MrZazzTv 1 year ago
The Road Not Taken.
stonedpenguin99 1 year ago
The road not taken.
stonedpenguin99 1 year ago
A beautiful poem.
sparrow111260 2 years ago
i have to memorize a poem for school and i chose this one. you really helped me out, thanks
dinafali 2 years ago
@dinafali i had to memorize this poem for my class and i lost my paper....but its kinda easy
irockimold 2 years ago
i've heard many renderings of this poem and I like this version the best
OhEmGeeItsDomC 2 years ago
My interpretation of this poem is a reflection of cause and effect, and how a simple decision a long time ago, can affect the course of one's entire life, and we'll never know the course our lives would have taken if one mindless decision had been made differently.
shawnmcghee1 2 years ago
What's even worse is that I doubt that even a soul in your quadrant of the globe would even know that this masterpiece of expression was a mainstay in our scholarly agenda once upon a time when people read actual pages for pleasure. What a lot of corporate cocksuckers people have developed themselves into becoming. Everyone is always so fucking lazy. What's next on the school curriculum? How to cheat Coleridge by making a rap called Rhyme of the Ancient MuthaFucka?
80emjay1 2 years ago
nice one...
MrNemrod123 2 years ago
i love the poem
curlgirl03 2 years ago
wtf is x
TheDarkFalcon 2 years ago
Thank you for posting this beautiful poem.
Morgana0x 2 years ago 3
That is the man Michael Jackson has mentioned in his autobiography
tendarine1 2 years ago
you just killed a great poem ass.....
Comedian401 2 years ago
two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry i could not travle both and be one travler long i stood, and looked down one as far as i could, to where it bent in the undergrowh; then took the other as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim because it was ggrassy and wanted ware, though as for that the passing there had warn them reallyabout the same,
Chipudnik 3 years ago
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, to roads diverged in a wood and i- i took the one less travled by, and that has made all the difference.
Chipudnik 3 years ago
Thank you for this, I put the text in the information section but this is good here.
Thanks for your input
JustAudio2008 3 years ago
This poem is so universal, and shows what an amazing poet Frost was. I think he is was the greatest American poet of the 20th century.
FilmPoems 3 years ago 21