一首時常浮現的英詩~ The Road Not Taken－小山貓的窩

這是一首大一英文上過的英詩，

作者為美國著名詩人 Robert Frost (1874–1963)，

詩中主要表達人在面臨重要抉擇時的猶豫與疑慮，

詩句平實流暢, 涵意深遠充滿智慧，

說也奇怪，大一英文並沒有好好認真上，

但大學畢業這麼多年了，

這首詩卻時常浮現在我腦海中，

尤其每當面臨人生重要抉擇時，

更不禁想起這首詩，

人生的抉擇，

不像實驗室裏可以有對照組實驗設計來比較２項選擇的可能結果與利弊得失，

人生的抉擇，

不論對錯好壞也不能重來，

這首詩裏作者以二條叉路的選擇，

表達了人在面臨抉擇時的迷惘，

在這裏就把它轉錄如下，與有緣者分享：

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;	5

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,	10

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.	15

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.	20