POEM: THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
One of the most influential piece of literature I have ever
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
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.
Frost intended the poem as a gentle jab at his great friend and fellow poet Edward Thomas whom he used to take walks through the forest with (Thomas always complained at the end that they should have taken a different path) and seemed amused at this certain interpretation of the poem as inspirational.
read was by one Robert Frost called the Road Less
Travelled. It is thoughtprovoking and an eye opener
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
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.
Frost intended the poem as a gentle jab at his great friend and fellow poet Edward Thomas whom he used to take walks through the forest with (Thomas always complained at the end that they should have taken a different path) and seemed amused at this certain interpretation of the poem as inspirational.
The names refer to two different roads, the correct name referring to the one the traveler did not take.
The poem's last lines, where the narrator declares that taking the road "less traveled by" has "made all the difference," can be seen as a declaration of the importance of independence and personal freedom. "The Road Not Taken" seems to illustrate that once one takes a certain road, there is no turning back. Although one might change paths later on, the past cannot be changed. It can be seen as showing that choice is very important, and is a thing to be considered. And that you will never know what the other path was like, so you may regret never knowing (the sigh), although it was still worth it because you made the right choice by knowing that you were able to exercise your personal freedom and independence.
Adapted from Wikipidea.org
I think I can summarise the poem with my dad's words, "when you are faced with a difficult decision, in most cases (90% of the time) the hardest decision among the two is usually the correct one. In my own way i'm discovering that short cuts are not always short and that life sometimes calls on us to make difficult and unpopular choices.
In Kenya this is exactly what we are missing leaders who will not be swayed by the masses but will stand firm on principles because they believe in them. Ladies and gentlemen that is what I call integrity...a 100% commitment and dedication (pronounced John Githongo). The only way Kenya can progress is if our leaders took the road less Travelled and made decisions from their heads and hearts putting Kenyans and their country needs above their and not from their stomachs and anything else that below there.
