My Favourite Poem

While I was reading a news piece about the destruction of Robert Frost's house in the USA by drunken hooligans celebrating new year's night reminded me one of my favourite poems. I want to share it with my readers. Regardless we interpret this poem portraying individualism or a hesitant traveller it is no doubt a great poetic master piece of all times.

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.


(1915)

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