Showing posts with label robert frost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robert frost. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Poem: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

In case you don't know the poem here's the link: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173536

Last Stanza:
...
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.
 
There have been number of interpretations for this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken) . Here's mine:
We are presented with many choices in life. We all tend to take the norm set by society and go to school, find a job, have a family and retire. While there is nothing wrong in this, few have the audacity to take the path to unknown and mold their lives and influence lives of many. And some among us who have chosen to follow the mundane norm, get a craving, a desire, a calling to test the depths of unknown.
 
 


Wednesday, August 6, 2014

And miles to go before I sleep!!

There have been few things from high school English class that has stuck with me. Among them is the classic poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. Trying to capture the gist of it in the crude drawing.

Poem: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621
... (last paragraph)

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   
But I have promises to keep,   
And miles to go before I sleep,   
And miles to go before I sleep.