the road not taken
Theroadnottaken
《The road not taken》诗歌赏析《The road not taken》是弗罗斯特的一首哲理抒情诗，作于1915年，自问世以来，广为流传，成为美国诗歌中的名篇。
在这首诗里，弗罗斯特抓住林中岔道这一具体形象，用比喻的手法引起人们丰富生动的联想，烘托出人生岔路这样具有哲理寓意的象征。
诗人选择的是人们司空见惯的林中岔道，来阐发如何抉择人生道路这一生活哲理的。
在诗里，弗罗斯特给我们描绘了这样一幅画面，两条路在黄色的树丛中叉开，一条路蜿蜒地进入丛林榛芜；一条路长满茸茸的绿草。
作为过客的诗人在岔路前犹豫、徘徊，因为两条路虽然风格不同，但都美丽、平坦、覆满落叶，以同样的魅力吸引着诗人，等待着踏践，而诗人选择了其中的一条“荒草萋萋，十分幽寂，显得更诱人，更美丽”、“很少留下旅人的足迹”的路，诗人选择的是一条少有人走的路，而不是像大多数人一样，选择那种留下很多旅人足迹的路。
诗人踏上了自己选择的小路，开始了艰难的跋涉。
可这时候诗人心中对于另一条路也是非常留恋的，他知道只能选择一条路，却舍不下另一条路，因为他虽然作出了选择，但心中仍有踌躇，万一这一次的选择是一个错误，将“难以再返回”了。
这里诗人写出了常人都有的一种心理。
如果仅仅是两条路的选择，诗人也不需踌躇再三，在这里“路”有更深的含义，它象征着人生的旅途，诗人面临的是人生道路的选择，他难以举足。
因为无论这种选择是明智还是糊涂，我们都不能回到原来的岔路重新开始。
诗人遥想将来对往事的回顾：在一个小树林中，选择了其中一条路，从此决定了自己一生的路。
这里，诗人并没有沿着第三节的诗意写下去，没有告诉读者他选择的那条路结果怎样，而是写未选择的路，留下想像的空间，让读者自己去体会。
是的，人生的道路，结果谁料得到呢?诗人带着一丝惆怅。
但这样写似乎更接近生活本真状态，更能打动读者的心。
诗人从日常生活中提炼诗情，写得朴实自然，不事雕琢，哲理丰富，读后耐人寻味。
歌诗表面上似乎是在写自然界的道路，但实质上暗示的却是人生之路。
英语诗歌The_Road_Not_Taken
The Road Not Taken(Robert Frost)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 layIn 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 henceTwo roads diverged in a woodand I—I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the difference未选择的路（罗伯特.弗罗斯特）黄色的树林里分出两条路可惜我不能同时去涉足我在那路口久久伫立我向着一条路极目望去但我却选择了另外一条路它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂显得更诱人，更漂亮尽管在这两条小路上都很少留下旅人的足迹尽管那天早晨落叶满地两条路都未经脚印污染呵，留下一条路等改日再会但我明白途径延绵无止境恐怕我难以再回返或许多青年后在某一个地址我将轻声叹息把旧事回忆一片丛林里分出两条路而我却选择了人迹更少的一条从此决定了我一生的道路.这首名诗《The Road NotTaken》形式是传统的抑扬格四音步，但音步可变（含有很多抑抑扬的成份）；每节的韵式为abaab 。
the road not taken(未选择的路)-中英文对照
The Road Not Taken《未选择的路》Two roads diverged in a yellow wood黄色的树林里分出两条路And sorry I could not travel both可惜我不能同时去涉足And be one traveler, long I stood我在那路口久久伫立And looked down one as far as I could我向着一条路极目望去To where it bent in the undergrown直到它消失在丛林深处Then took the other, as just as fair但我却选了另外一条路And having perhaps the better claim它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂Because it was grassy and wanted wear;显得更诱人、更美丽Though as for that the passing there虽然在这两条小路上Had worn them really about the same都很少留下旅人的足迹And both that morning equally lay虽然那天清晨落叶满地In leaves no step had trodden black两条路都未经脚印污染Oh, I kept the first for another day!呵，留下一条路等改日再见！Yet knowing how way leads on to way,但我知道路径延绵无尽头I doubted if I should even come back.恐怕我难以再回返I shall be telling this with a sigh也许多少年后在某个地方Somewhere ages and ages hence:我将轻声叹息把往事回顾Two roads diverged in a wood, and I---一片树林里分出两条路I took the one less traveled by,而我选了人迹更少的一条And that has made all the difference从此决定了我一生的道路1 / 1。
theroadnottaken翻译及赏析
The Road Not Taken 《未选择的路》罗伯特•弗罗斯特（RobertFrost）生于1874年，卒于1963年，可能要算是20世纪美国最受欢迎和爱戴的一位诗人了。
1912年，他弃农从文，从此成为了一名专业诗人。
他曾在1961年时受邀在约翰•F•肯尼迪总统的就职典礼上朗诵他的诗歌——《The Gift Outrigh t》。
而本次我为大家推荐的《The Road Not Taken》则是他最著名的一首诗歌。
Two roads diverge d in a yellowwood 黄色的树林里分出两条路And sorry I could not travel both 可惜我不能同时去涉足And be one travele r, long I stood 我在那路口久久伫立And lookeddown one as far as I could 我向着一条路极目望去To where it bent in the undergrown 直到它消失在丛林深处Then took the other, as just as fair 但我却选了另外一条路And havingperhaps the better claim 它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂Because it was grassyand wantedwear; 显得更诱人、更美丽Thoughas for that the passing there 虽然在这两条小路上Had worn them reallyabout the same 都很少留下旅人的足迹And both that morning equally lay 虽然那天清晨落叶满地In leavesno step had trodden black 两条路都未经脚印污染Oh, I kept the first for another day! 呵，留下一条路等改日再见！Y et knowing how way leads on to way, 但我知道路径延绵无尽头I doubted i f I shouldeven come back.恐怕我难以再回返I shall be telling this with a sigh 也许多少年后在某个地方Somewhe re ages and ages hence: 我将轻声叹息把往事回顾Two roads diverge d in a wood, and I--- 一片树林里分出两条路I took the one less travele d by, 而我选了人迹更少的一条And that has made all the differe nce 从此决定了我一生的道路评论1："The Road Not Taken" is a poem by RobertFrost, publish ed in 1916 in the collect ion Mountai n Interva l, it is the first poem in the volumeand is printed in italics. The title is often mistake nly given as "The Road Less Travele d", from the penulti mate line: "I took the one less travele d by".The poem has two recogni zed interpr etatio ns; one is a more literal interpr etatio n, while the other is more ironic.Readers often see the poem literal ly, as an express ion of individ ualism. Critics typical ly view the poem as ironic.[1] – "'The Road Not Taken,' perhaps the most famousexample of Frost's own claimsto conscio us irony and 'the best example in all of America n poetryof a wolf in sheep's clothin g.'"[2] –and Frost himself warned"You have to be careful of that one; it's a trickypoem – very tricky."[3] Frost intende d the poem as a gentlejab at his great friendand fellowpoet EdwardThomaswith whom he used to take walks through the forest(Thomasalwayscomplai ned at the end that they shouldhave taken a differe nt path) and seemedamusedat this certain interpr etatio n of the poem as inspira tional.Literal interpr etatio nAccordi ng to the literal(and more common)interpr etatio n, the poem is inspira tional, a paean to individ ualism and non-conform ism.The poem consist s of four stanzas. In the first stanza,the speaker describ es his positio n. He has been out walking in the woods and comes to two roads, and he standslooking as far down each one as he can see. He would like to try out both, but doubtshe could do that, so therefo re he continu es to look down the roads for a long time tryingto make his decisio n about which road to take.Ironicinterpr etatio nThe ironicinterpr etatio n, widelyheld by critics,[1][5] is that the poem is instead about regretand persona l myth-making,rationa lizing our decisio ns.In this interpr etatio n, the final two lines:I took the one less travele d by,And that has made all the differe nce.are ironic: the choicemade littleor no differe nce at all, the speaker's protest ations to the contrar y. The speaker admitsin the secondand third stanzas that both paths may be equally worn and equally leaf-covered, and it is only in his futurerecolle ctionthat he will call one road "less travele d by".The sigh, widelyinterpr eted as a sigh of regret,might also be interpr eted ironica lly: in a 1925 letterto Cristin e Yates of Dickson, Tenness ee, askingabout the sigh, Frost replied: "It was my ratherprivate jest at the expense of those who might think I would yet live to be sorry for the way I had taken in life."Everyon e is a travele r, choosin g the roads to followon the map of their continu ous journey, life. There is never a straigh t path that leavesone with but a sole directi on in which to head. Regardl ess of the origina l message that RobertFrost had intende d to convey, his poem, "The Road Not Taken", has left its readers with many differe nt interpr etatio ns. It is one's past, present and the attitud e with which he looks upon his futurethat determi nes the shade of the light that he will see the poem in. In any case however, this poem clearly demonst ratesFrost's beliefthat it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man who he is. "And sorry I could not travelboth..." It is alwaysdifficu lt to make a decisio n because it is impossi ble not to wonderabout the opportu nity cost, what will be missedout on. There is a strongsense of regretbeforethe choiceis even made and it lies in the knowled ge that in one lifetim e, it is impossi ble to traveldown every path. In an attempt to make a decisio n, the travele r "looks down one as far as I could". The road that will be chosenleads to the unknown, as does any choicein life. As much he may strainhis eyes to see as far the road stretch es, eventua lly it surpass es his visionand he can never see where it is going to lead. It is the way that he chooses here that sets him off on his journey and decides where he is going. "Then took the other, just as fair, and havingperhaps the betterclaim." What made it have the betterclaim is that "it was grassla nd wantedwear." It was somethi ng that was obvious ly not for everyon e because it seemedthat the majorit y of peopletook the other path therefo re he calls it "the road less travele d by". The fact that the travele r took this path over the more popular, secureone indicat es the type of persona lity he has, one that does not want to necessa rily followthe crowd but do more of what has never been done, what is new and differe nt. "And both that morning equally lay in leavesno step had trodden black." The leaveshad covered the groundand since the time they had fallenno one had yet to pass by on this road. Perhaps Frost does this because each time a personcomes to the point where they have to make a choice, it is new to them, somewhe re they have never been and they tend to feel as thoughno one else had ever been there either. "I kept the first for another day!" The desireto traveldown both paths is express ed and is not unusual, but "knowing how way leads on to way", the speaker of this poem realize s that the decisio n is not just a tempora ry one and he "doubted if I shouldever come back." This is his commonsense speakin g and acknowl edging that what he chooses now will affectevery other choicehe makes afterwa rd. Once you have perform ed an act or spokena word that crystal lizeswho you are, there is no turning back and it cannotbe undone. Once again at the end of the poem the regrethangs over the travele r like a heavy cloud about to burst. He realize s that at the end of his life, "somewhe re ages and ages hence", he will have regrets about havingnever gone back and traveli ng down the roads he did not take. Yet he remains proud of his decisio n and he recogni zes that it was this path that he chose that made him turn out the way and he did and live his life the way in which he lived. "I took the road less travele d by and that had made all the differe nce." To this man, what was most importa nt, what reallymade the differe nce, is that he did what he wanted, even if it meant takingthe road less travele d. If he hadn't, he wouldn't be the same man he is now. There are many equally valid meaning s to this poem and RobertFrost may have intende d this. He may have been tryingto achieve a univers al underst anding. In other words, there is no judgmen t, no specifi city, no moral. There is simplya narrato r who makes a decisio n in his life that had changed the directi on of his life from what it may have otherwi se been. It allowsall readers from all differe nt experie nces to relateto the poem.RobertFrost is one of the finestof rural New England’s20th century pastora l poets. His poems are great combina tion of wisdom, harmony and serenit y. They are simpleat first sight, but demandreaders for deep reading to grasp further meaning beyondsurface.The famouspoem of Frost The Road Not Taken is my favorit e. This poem consist s of four stanzas of five lines. The rhyme schemeis ABAAB. the rhymesare strictand masculi ne, with notable excepti on of the last line. There are four stresse d syllabl es each line, varying on iambictetrame ter base.The Road Not Taken tells about life choice.Man’slifeismetapho ricall y related to a journey filledwith twistsand turns. One has to conside r a lot beforemakinga wise choice. Thoughthe diverge d roads seem identic al, they actuall y lead to differe nt directi ons, which symboli ze differe nt fates.A less than rigorou s look at the poem may lead one to believethatFrost’smoralisembodie d in those lines. The poem is taken as a call to indepen dence,preachi ng origina lity and Emerson ian self-relianc e. The poem deconst ructsits conclus ion stanzaby stanza.At the beginni ng of this poem, the poet shows the inabili ty of human beingsto foresee the future, especia lly the results of choices. At the split in the road, the speaker looks far down both the two paths to see what each of the paths will bring. However, his sight is limited; his eyes can only see the path until it bendsinto―theundergr owth‖. Man is free to choose, but doesn’tknowbeforeh and the results of his choice.Both roads divergeintoa―yellowwood‖andappeartobe―aboutthesame‖intheirpurpose s. The first path is a more commonroute. The other is less travele d, which―wasgrassandwantedwear‖. The poet present s a conflic t here—the decisio n between the commoneasy path and excepti onal challen ging path. The two differe nt paths signify two differe nt kinds of lives. Choosin g the commoneasy path, peoplewill feel at ease and live in safety,because the outcome is predict able. However, that kind of life may be less excitin g and lack of novelty. While choosin gthe―lesstravele d‖roadreprese nts the gambleof facinga more difficu lt path in lives. This forms contras t with familia r lives of most people. Peoplehope to achieve r a satisfa ctoryand interes ting life on this road. The wish is good, but reality is full of challen ges and uncerta inties. Nobodycan be sure of the outcome. After vacilla ting between the two roads, the poet finally decidestotaketheroad―lesstravele dby‖and leads a differe nt life from commonpeople.This may indicat e his choiceto be a poet, other than other jobs. The poet makes up his mind to dedicat e himself to poem writing, which is regarde d as a less commoncareer.Once the decisio n is made, there will be no way to returnto the origina l choiceto experie nce the other route. So the poet utters―Yetknowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I shouldever come back.‖Themadechoiceis irrevoc able, so man must be careful and rationa l beforemakingdecisio ns. At the same time, he must be courage ous enoughto shoulde r the resultof his choice, whether it is good or not.Frost present sman’slimitat ion to explorelife’sdiffere nt possibi lities. Thepoet―sighs‖attheendofthepoem. For at the time ofone’schoice, he must give up other choices and miss some other things. At the same time, he―sighs‖withlamenta tion, ponderi ng what he may have missedontheotherpathandthathedoesn’thaveopportu nities to experie nce another kind of life.The Road Not Taken is interpr eted univers ally as a represe ntatio n of two similar choices. At the beginni ng, man may face two identic al forks, which symboli ze the nexus of free choiceand fate. They contras t increas inglywith each other as they diverge in their separat e directi ons. Man is free to choose,butit’sbeyondhis ability to foretel l the consequ ences. Man can choosea commonroute which guarant ees a safe and reliabl e life. He can also choosea less commonone which is unknown, uniqueand standsoutaboveotherelse’s. All in all, man must be respons ible for his choiceand has courage to shoulde r the result. He can never go back to the past and experie nce other possibi lities. It is impossi ble to predict the outcome of decisio ns, so it is essenti al for him to make wise decisio ns after conside ring, selecti ng and questio ning which selecti on will provide him with fulfill ment.The Road Not Taken is full of philoso phical overton es. This poem shouldbe read as a warning. Man shouldconside r a lot beforemakingchoices and reflect over the choices he has made to discove r―allthediffere nces‖.RobertFrost’s―TheRoadNotTaken‖hasbeenoneofthemostanalyze d, quoted, antholo gizedpoems in America n poetry. A wide-spreadinterpr etatio n claimsthat the speaker in the poem is promoti ng individ ualism and non-conform ity.A TrickyPoemFrost claimsthat he wrote this poem about his friendEdwardThomas, with whom he had walkedmany times in the woods near London. Frost has said that while walking they would come to differe nt paths and after choosin g one, Thomaswould alwaysfret wonderi ng what they might have missedby not takingthe other path.About the poem, Frost asserte d, "You have to be careful of that one; it's a trickypoem - very tricky." And he is, of course, correct. The poem has been and continu es to be used as an inspira tional poem, one that to the undisce rningeye seems to be encoura ging self-relianc e, not followi ng where othershave led.But a close reading of the poem provesotherwi se. It does not moraliz e about choice; it simplysays that choiceis inevita ble, but you never know what your choicewill mean until you have lived it.First Stanza– Describ es Situati onThe poem consist s of four stanzas. In the first stanza, the speaker describ es his positio n. He has been out walking the woods and comes to two roads, and he standslooking as far down each one as he can see. He would like to try out both, but doubtshe could to that, so therefo re he continu es to look down the roads for a long time tryingto make his decisio n about which road to take.SecondStanza– Decides to Take Less-Travele d RoadThe speaker had lookeddownthefirstone―towhereitbentintheundergr owth,‖andinthesecon dstanza, he reports that he decided to take the other path, because it seemedto have less traffic than the first. But then he goes on to say that they actuall y were very similar ly worn. The secondone that he took seems less travele d, but as he thinksabout it, he realize s that theywere―reallyabout the same.‖Notexactlythatsamebutonly―aboutthesame.‖Third Stanza– Continu es Descrip tion of RoadsThe third stanzacontinu es with the cogitat ion about the possibl e differe nces between the two roads. He had noticed that the leaveswere both fresh fallenon them both and had not been walkedon, but then again claimsthat maybe he would come back and also walk the first one sometim e, but he doubted he would be able to, because in life one thing leads to another and time is short.Also on Suite101Frost's Snow and WoodsRobertFrost's "Stoppin g by Woods on a Snowy Evening" seems simple, but its nuanced phrase, "And miles to go beforeI sleep," offersmuch about which to specula te.FourthStanza– Two TrickyWordsThe fourthstanzaholds the key to the trickin ess of the poem:I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhe re ages and ages hence:Two roads diverge d in a wood, and I—I took the one less travele d by,And that has made all the differe nce.Those who interpr et this poem as suggest ing non-conform itytaketheword―differe nce‖tobeapositiv e differe nce. But there is nothing in the poem that suggest s that this differe nce signals a positiv e outcome. The speaker could not offer such informa tion, becausehehasnotlivedthe―differe nce‖yet.The other word that leads readers astrayistheword―sigh.‖Bytaking―differe nce‖tomeanapositiv e differe nce, they think that the sigh is one of nostalg ic relief; however, a sigh can also mean regret.Thereisthe―oh, dear‖kindofsigh, but also the ―whatarelief‖kindofsigh.Whichoneisit?If it is the reliefsigh, then the differe nce means the speaker is glad he took the road he did; if it is the regretsigh, then the differe nce would not be good, and the speaker would be sighing in regret. But the plain fact is that the poem does not identif ythe natureof that sigh. The speaker of the poem does not even know the natureof that sigh, because that sigh and his evaluat ion of the differe nce his choicewill make are still in the future. It is a truismthat any choicean indiviu al make is goingtomake―allthediffere nce‖inhowourfutureturns out.Careful ReadersWon’tBeTrickedSo Frost was absolut ely correct; his poem is tricky—very tricky. In this poem, it is importa nt to be careful with the time frame. When the speaker says he will be reporti ng sometim e in the futurehow his road choiceturnedout, he clearly statesthat he cannotassignmeaningto―sigh‖and―differe nce‖yet, because he cannotknow how his choicewill affecthis future, until after he has lived it.评论4：1．Introdu ctionAs is well known to people, RobertFrost is one of the most famousnationa l poets of America. Thoughcontemp orarywith moderni sts like T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, RobertFrost is often regarde d as a traditi onal poet of nature.He rejecte d the revolut ionary poeticprincip les of his contemp orary. On the contrar y, hechose―theold- fashion ed way to be new and urged poets to use the idiomsof spokenEnglish and, when possibl e, to rely on commonp lace and even rusticimagery. And he saw natureas a storeho use of analogy and symbol.However, unlikeother poets of nature, he depicte d natureas somethi ng in constan t conflic ts with human beingsand bring a deep sense of uncerta inty and even tragedy to them. Simpleas they seem, his poems are often profoun d in meaning between the lines. Most of his poems are charact erized with an unusual sense of tragedy and reflect weaknes s of human beingsin the face of vast, imperso nal force.Additio nally,the poem reflect sFrost’sownpersona l tragedy and his miserab le, sorrowf ul inner feeling s exactly. When it comes to this, his persona l life experie nce has to be taken into conside ration. Famousand popular as he became, but he suffera lot duringall his life. He lost his fatheras a young boy, and he was bereave d of his beloved wife in his middleage. What is worse, all of his childre n ended up dying young or sufferi ng from mentaldisease. For him, life seemedto keep playing trickson him and made his life miserab le. As a result, many poems compose d by him, not only this one, are feature d with an exoticsense of tragicbeauty.2. Analysi sIn this poem, the speaker, a travele r in the wood faced with the choiceof two roads. The roads bear two connota tions: the materia l roads and the roads of life. Now, let me give some specifi c analysi s.2.1 See over one roadIn part one, the speaker faced with two roads in the autumna l wood and feel puzzled over which one to choose.―Tworoadsdiverge d in a yellowwood‖, He stood there for a long time and mused on one of them, which was taken by many people. Unfortu nately, he was unableto find out which place the，road would take him to, for it is far beyondhis ability to know where the road would lead. However, he must chooseto take.2.2. The other oneIn part two, he stepped on the other road, ―Thentooktheother, asjustasfair‖, It was grassyand not taken. His choicewould affectevery other subsequ ent choice, and there was no turning back. From his choicefor the less trodden road, it could be conclud ed that he did not like to followthe steps of other people, he wantedhis own life choired by himself.2.3 Helples sIn part three, he decided to choosethe less travele d one, but he was aware that he could never have a chanceto returnto the first road. ―Idoubted if I shouldnevercomeback‖showedhe is helples s.2.4 Chose the less travele d roadIn part four, ―Ishallbetellingthiswithasign‖, he articul ated why he chose the less travele d road, for he expecte d his life to be unusual and differe nt. But there was no way to foretel l the consequ encesof his choice.All in all, for the speaker, the road of life was acciden t and mystica l, and his very choicewas crucial in determi ning the consequ encesof his life. The ordinar y peoplefollowother’schoice, while the excepti onal ones choosetheir uniqueroads oflife.3. Conclus ion3.1 Everyon e is a travele rEveryon e is a travele r, choosin g the roads to followon the map of their continu ous journey. There is never a straigh t path but a sole directi on in which to head. It is one's past, present and the attitud e with which he looks upon his futurethat determi nes the shade of the light.In any case however, this poem clearly explain ed Frost's beliefthat it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man who he is. It is alwaysdifficu lt to make a decisio n because it is impossi ble not to wonderabout the opportu nity cost, what will be missedout on. It is impossi ble to traveldown every path. The road that will be chosenleads to the unknown, as does any choicein life. As much he may strainhis eyes to see as far the road stretch es, eventua lly it surpass es his visionand he can never see where it is going to lead.It is the way that he chooses here that sets him off on his journey and decides where he is going. It was somethi ng that was obvious ly not for everyon e because it seemedthat the majorit y of peopletook the other path. There is simplya narrato r who makes a decisio n in his life that had changed the directi on of his life from what it may have otherwi se been. It allowsall readers from all differe nt experie nces to relateto the poem.3.2 Human beingsare so weakIn a word, the poem The Road Not Taken is a very beautif ul and excelle nt poem. It is set in a rural natural environ ment where alwaysinspire the speaker to think of life. It is based on a metapho r in which the journey through life is compare d to a journey on a road. And the speaker of the poem has to chooseone path instead of another. Even thoughthe two paths look equally attract ive, the speaker knows that his choiceat this momentmay have a signifi cant influen ce on his future. He does make a decisio n, hopingthat he may be able to visit this place again, yet realizi ng that such an opportu nity is impossi ble. He imagine s himself in the futuretelling the story of his life, and claimin g that his decisio n to take the road less travele d by, the road few other peoplehave taken, has made all the differe nce.This thesisintends to exploreFrost’sownviewoflife. He told us that human beingsare so weak when compare d with natureand the destiny. Thoughhuman beingshave made great progres s in the past several centuri es, there will forever exist somethi ng that is far beyondtheir control. For human, it is unableto do anythin g usefulwhen he is in conflic t with the imperso nal force. Andit’salsounableto control his own destiny; on the contrar y, his fate and destiny are in the chargeof somethi ng mysteri ous beyondhim. In this sense, life is a tragedy to human. So it could be said that Frost conveye d his sense of tragedy commonto human through this simplebut beautif ul poem. It is simplein form but profoun d in meaning.评论5：SummaryThe speaker standsin the woods, conside ring a fork in the road. Both ways are equally worn and equally overlai d withun-trodden leaves. The speaker chooses one, telling himself that he will take the other another day. Yet he knows it is unlikel y that he will have the opportu nity to do so. And he admitsthat someday in the futurehe will recreat e the scene with a slighttwist: He will claim that he took the less-travele d road.From“TheRoadNotTaken‖consist s of four stanzas of five lines. The rhyme schemeis ABAAB; the rhymesare strictand masculi ne, with the notable excepti on of the last line (we do not usually stressthe -ence of differe nce). There are four stresse d syllabl es per line, varying on an iambictetrame ter base.Comment aryThis has got to be among the best-known, most-often-misunde rstood poems on the planet.Several generat ions of careles s readers have turnedit into a piece of Hallmar k happy-graduat ion-son, seize-the-futurepuffery. Cursedwith a perfect marriag e of form and content, arresti ng phrasewrought from simplewords, and resonan t metapho r, itseemsasif―TheRoadNotTaken‖getsmemoriz ed without reallybeing read. For this it has died the cliché’sun-death of trivial immorta lity.But you yoursel f can resurre ct it from zombie-hood by reading it—not with imagina tion, even, but simplywith accurac y. Of the two roads the speakersays―thepassing there / Had worn them reallyaboutthesame.‖Infact, bothroads―thatmorning lay / In leavesno step had trodden black.‖Meaning: Neither of the roads is less travele d by. These are the facts; we cannotjustifi ably ignorethe reverbe ration s they send through the easy aphoris ms of the last two stanzas.One of the attract ions of the poem is its archety pal dilemma, one that we instant ly recogni ze because each of us encount ers it innumer able times, both literal ly and figurat ively.Paths in the woods and forks in roads are ancient and deep-seatedmetapho rs for the lifelin e, its crisesand decisio ns. Identic al forks, in particu lar, symboli ze for us the nexus of free will and fate: We are free to choose,but we do not reallyknow beforeh and what we are choosin g between. Our route is, thus, determi ned by an accreti on of choiceand chance, and it is impossi ble to separat e the two.This poem does not advise. It does not say, ―Whenyoucometoaforkintheroad, study the footpri nts and take the road less travele dby‖ (or even, as Yogi Berra enigmat ically quipped, ―Whenyoucometoaforkintheroad, takeit‖). Frost’sfocusismore complic ated. First, there is no less-travele d road in this poem; itisn’tevenanoption.Next, the poem seems more concern ed with the questio n of how the concret e present (yellowwoods, grassyroads covered in fallenleaves) will look from a futurevantage point.The ironictone is inescap able: ―Ishallbetelling this with a sigh / Somewhe reagesandageshence.‖The speaker anticip ates his own futureinsince rity—his need, later on in life, to rearran ge the facts and injecta dose of Lone Rangerinto the account. He knows that he will be inaccur ate, at best, or hypocri tical, at worst, when he holds his life up as an example. In fact, he predict s that his futureself will betraythis momentof decisio n as if the betraya l were inevita ble. This realiza tion is ironicand poignan tly patheti c. Butthe―sigh‖iscritica l. The speaker will not, in his old age, merelygatherthe youth about him and say, ―DowhatIdid, kiddies. I stuck to my guns, took the road less travele d by, and that has made all the differe nce.‖Rather, he may say this, but he will sigh first; forhewon’tbelieve it himself. Somewhe re in the back of his mind will remainthe image of yellowwoods and two equally leafy paths.Ironicas it is, this is also a poem infused with the anticip ationof remorse. Itstitleisnot―TheRoadLessTravele d‖but―TheRoad Not Taken.‖Evenashemakesachoice(a choicehe is forcedto make if does not want to stand forever in the woods, one for which he has no real guide or definit ive basis for decisio n-making), the speaker knows that he will second-guess himself somewhe re down the line—or at the very least he will wonderat what is irrevoc ably lost: the impossi ble, unknowa ble Other Path. But the natureof the decisio n is such that there is no Right Path—just the chosenpath and the other path. What are sighedfor ages and ages hence are not so much the wrong decisio ns as the moments of decisio n themsel ves—moments that, one atop the other, mark the passing of a life. This is the more primalstrainof remorse.Thus, to add a further level of irony, the theme of the poem may, after all, be―seizetheday.‖Butamorenuanced carpe diem, if you please.。
英文诗歌鉴赏-The-road-not-taken
And be one traveler, long I stood我在那路口久久伫立
And looked down one as far as I could我向着一条路极目望去
To where it bent in the undergrowth;直到它消失在丛林深处
(2)弗罗斯特在诗歌风格上的一个最大特点是朴素无华，含义隽永，把深刻的思考和哲理寓于平淡无奇的内容和简洁朴实的诗句之中。本诗堪称是这方面的典范。这首诗的语言质朴自然，但在构思上却非常巧妙。我们不难看出，诗歌中所描写的岔路就是人生岔路的象征。它说明，在人生的旅途中，我们时常必须要在两条道路、两种思想或两种行动中做出选择，不同的选择将决定不同的人生方向。面对选择时，我们往往会变得犹豫不决，反复权衡，拿不定主意。最后，我们终究会选择其中的一条路。这首诗，描绘的是一个面临选择的人和他进行选择时的心态，至于选择的具体内容并没有写出，诗人的着眼点是选择本身。每一个读者都能够在这首诗中发现自己的生活体验，体味其中的哲理。因为这首诗具有丰富的内涵，给读者留下了想像的空间，从而受到触动，引发深深的思索。这种每个人都有过的复杂的心理体验，被弗罗斯特敏感地捕捉到了，并谱写成一首脍炙人口的佳作.
罗伯特弗罗斯特堪称美国20世纪90年代最受欢迎的诗人之一，是美国非官方的桂冠诗人，他一生致力于诗歌的创作，主要写作并出版了10部诗集，这一首是其第三部诗集《山的间隔》中的名篇。
2诗歌翻译:
The Road Not Taken——Robert Frost未选择的路罗伯特•弗罗斯特
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,黄色的树林里分出两条路
双语译文：TheRoadNotTaken未选择的路
双语译文：TheRoadNotTaken未选择的路双语译文：The Road Not Taken 未选择的路The Road Not Taken 未选择的路by Robert Frost （美）弗罗斯特Two roads diverged in a yellow wood 黄色的树林里分出两条路And sorry I could not travel both 可惜我不能同时去涉足And be one traveler, long I stood 我在那路口久久伫立And looked down one as far as I could 我向着一条路极目望去To where it bent in the undergrown 直到它消失在丛林深处Then took the other, as just as fair 但我却选了另外一条路And having perhaps the better claim 它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂Because it was grassy and wanted wear; 显得更诱人、更美丽Though as for that the passing there 虽然在这两条小路上Had worn them really about the same 都很少留下旅人的足迹And both that morning equally lay 虽然那天清晨落叶满地In leaves no step had trodden black 两条路都未经脚印污染Oh, I kept the first for another day! 呵，留下一条路等改日再见！Yet knowing how way leads on to way, 但我知道路径延绵无尽头I doubted if I should even come back.恐怕我难以再回返I shall be telling this with a sigh 也许多少年后在某个地方Somewhere ages and ages hence: 我将轻声叹息把往事回顾Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--- 一片树林里分出两条路I took the one less traveled by, 而我选了人迹更少的一条And that has made all the difference 从此决定了我一生的道路。
The Road Not Taken译文赏析共4页文档
The Road Not Taken译文赏析译文一：未选择的路黄色的树林里分出两条路可惜我不能同时去涉足我在那路口久久伫立我向着一条路极目望去直到它消失在丛林深处但我却选择了另外一条路它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂显得更诱人，更美丽虽然在这条小路上很少留下旅人的足迹那天清晨落叶满地两条路都未经脚印污染呵，留下一条路等改日再见但我知道路径延绵无尽头恐怕我难以再回返也许多少年后在某个地方，我将轻声叹息将往事回顾：一片树林里分出两条路―― 而我选择了人迹更少的一条，从此决定了我一生的道路。
译文二：殊途金秋密林，展开二条小路，遗憾满怀，无法同时踏足，孤独旅人，良久伫立踟蹰。
极目远眺，道路蜿蜒何处，弯弯曲曲，出没林间灌木。
二择其一，选择这条小路，于我而言，或许就是坦途，杂草萋萋，期待旅人光顾。
设想两途，皆是行者无数，人流如织，彼此有何异殊。
清晨林间，铺展二条小路，人迹杳茫，缤纷落叶密布，留下其一，期待来日再补。
了然于胸，此路已向它途，扪心自问，能否回到当初。
一声叹息，昨日历历在目，年复一年，不知身在何处，茂密林间，方向由我选出。
向往孤旅，人烟稀少为主，回首往事，选择决定归宿！第一章译文一赏析题目译作《未选择的路》，字字对译，第一部分前两句采用直译的方法，第三句省略了“and be one traveler”，直接说“我在那路口久久伫立”，完整的表达出诗人的中心思想，在译文风格上也与原作保持一致，既做到了字字对译，又能在文字处理上严谨而细腻，“涉足”、“伫立”、“极目”等词可见译者深厚的文学功底。
第二部分的翻译与原诗出入较大，第一句“as just as fair” 和第二句“And having perhaps the better claim”直接省略不译，第四句的“grassy”译为“荒草萋萋”，“wanted wear” 译为“十分幽寂”，可见用词之斟酌。
由于译者删减掉两句，为达到结构工整，增译一句“显得更诱人，更美丽”。
诗歌欣赏the-road-not-taken-赏析
In leaves no step had trodden black
都埋在还没被踩过的落叶底下
Oh, I kept the first for another day
啊，我把那第一条路留给另一天！
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken’’
• Yet knowing how way leads on to way
Background
• Forst claims that he wrote this poem about his friend Edward Thomas, with whom he had walked many times in the woods near London.
• Forst has said that while walking they would come to different paths and after choosing one, Thomas would always felt wondering what they might have missed by not taking the other path.
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken’’
• And be one traveler, long I stood
The Road Not Taken 歌词(带中文翻译)
The Road Not Taken（未选择的路）演唱：高姗词、曲：高姗Two roads diverged in a yellow wood 黄色的树林里分出两条路I'd go back and rechoose if I could 可惜我不能同时去涉足But here I lay now, sick and so confused 此时的我困惑而疲倦Was it a lie or was it all true 是非真假早已分不清楚Sleep now gently my darling love, 轻轻睡去吧我爱的人Don't let my worries trouble you 别让我的烦恼惊扰你People try hard to forget 人们用尽一切方式去忘记But memories always stay 可记忆它却从不曾远离Nightmare s and dreams of long passed things 噩梦与美梦来自久远的经历Try and chase me away from sleep 使我夜夜无法入眠All that time I spent in the dark 我在黑暗中度过的那些光阴Just like that I'm in the light; 也同样会在光明中Everything will be fine 消散而去La la la.........................Notice all the similarities 你与我竟如此相同We go together like the birds and bees 好似作伴畅游天空Just imagine what all could have happened 只是猜想那些故事如果发生Every one I knew would long be dead 我认识的人都会长久失去What really goes on behind closed doors 有什么故事关在紧闭的门内Makes me secretly cry out loud 使我悄悄哭泣Within all these horror stories 这些糟糕的故事之中Lay many times of regret 深藏着太多悔恨Always in such a frightened state 深陷于恐惧的思绪Trapped in an imaginary cage受困于想象的牢笼Living life day by day 如此生活日复一日And soon enough, some day; 但有一天，在很近的将来I'll come out and play 我会逃离，狂欢In a world where everything is upside down 在这个混淆颠倒的世界里I try hard not to lose my mind 我努力不要丢失了自己Things keep getting worse so I tell myself 事情变得更糟糕的时候我对自己说Everything will be fine 一切都会有转机I want to grow up and be a real bad cop我想要成长去面对那不如意的生活In the end, it'll work 在最后，都会如愿以偿divergedv.分开( diverge的过去式和过去分词); 偏离; 分歧; 分道扬镳;diverge[英][daɪˈvɜ:dʒ][美][daɪˈvɜ:rdʒ]vi.分开，叉开; 分歧; 偏离，背离; [数]发散，无极限;vt.使发散; 使偏离;第三人称单数：diverges过去分词：diverged现在进行时：diverging过去式：diverged gently[英][ˈdʒentli][美][ˈdʒentli]adv.温柔地; 轻轻地; 有礼貌地; 文雅地;1.Then father's hand gently covered her mouth.父亲拿手轻轻地掩住她的嘴。
诗歌欣赏the-road-not-taken-赏析
Oh, I kept the first for another day
啊，我把那第一条路留给另一天！
And that morning
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken’’
• Yet knowing how way leads on to way
隔了多少岁月，流逝了多少时光
Many and many years later
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken’’
Two roads diverged in a wood
一片森林里分出两条路
•and I—I took the one less traveled by
也许会有更好的风景
景色，风景
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken’’
– Because it was grassy and wanted wear
因为它绿意融融，等待人去践踏 人迹罕至的
Though as for that the passing there
其实讲到留下了来往的足迹
An authentic Poet
Listen
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken ”
分叉
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
黄色的树林里分出两条路
And sorry I could not travel both
可惜我不能同时去涉足
黄色的树林里分出两条路 可惜我不能同时去涉足 我在那路口久久伫立 我向着一条路极目望去 但我却选择了另外一条路 它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂 显得更诱人，更美丽 虽然在这两条小路上 都很少留下旅人的足迹
The Road Not Taken 歌词(带中文翻译)
The Road Not Taken（未选择的路）演唱：高姗词、曲：高姗Two roads diverged in a yellow wood 黄色的树林里分出两条路I'd go back and rechoose if I could 可惜我不能同时去涉足But here I lay now, sick and so confused 此时的我困惑而疲倦Was it a lie or was it all true 是非真假早已分不清楚Sleep now gently my darling love, 轻轻睡去吧我爱的人Don't let my worries trouble you 别让我的烦恼惊扰你People try hard to forget 人们用尽一切方式去忘记But memories always stay 可记忆它却从不曾远离Nightmare s and dreams of long passed things 噩梦与美梦来自久远的经历Try and chase me away from sleep 使我夜夜无法入眠All that time I spent in the dark 我在黑暗中度过的那些光阴Just like that I'm in the light; 也同样会在光明中Everything will be fine 消散而去La la la.........................Notice all the similarities 你与我竟如此相同We go together like the birds and bees 好似作伴畅游天空Just imagine what all could have happened 只是猜想那些故事如果发生Every one I knew would long be dead 我认识的人都会长久失去What really goes on behind closed doors 有什么故事关在紧闭的门内Makes me secretly cry out loud 使我悄悄哭泣Within all these horror stories 这些糟糕的故事之中Lay many times of regret 深藏着太多悔恨Always in such a frightened state 深陷于恐惧的思绪Trapped in an imaginary cage受困于想象的牢笼Living life day by day 如此生活日复一日And soon enough, some day; 但有一天，在很近的将来I'll come out and play 我会逃离，狂欢In a world where everything is upside down 在这个混淆颠倒的世界里I try hard not to lose my mind 我努力不要丢失了自己Things keep getting worse so I tell myself 事情变得更糟糕的时候我对自己说Everything will be fine 一切都会有转机I want to grow up and be a real bad cop我想要成长去面对那不如意的生活In the end, it'll work 在最后，都会如愿以偿divergedv.分开( diverge的过去式和过去分词); 偏离; 分歧; 分道扬镳;diverge[英][daɪˈvɜ:dʒ][美][daɪˈvɜ:rdʒ]vi.分开，叉开; 分歧; 偏离，背离; [数]发散，无极限;vt.使发散; 使偏离;第三人称单数：diverges过去分词：diverged现在进行时：diverging过去式：diverged gently[英][ˈdʒentli][美][ˈdʒentli]adv.温柔地; 轻轻地; 有礼貌地; 文雅地;1.Then father's hand gently covered her mouth.父亲拿手轻轻地掩住她的嘴。
【良心出品】the-road-not-taken翻译及赏析
The Road Not Taken 《未选择的路》罗伯特•弗罗斯特（Robert Frost）生于1874年，卒于1963年，可能要算是20世纪美国最受欢迎和爱戴的一位诗人了。
1912年，他弃农从文，从此成为了一名专业诗人。
他曾在1961年时受邀在约翰•F•肯尼迪总统的就职典礼上朗诵他的诗歌——《The Gift Outright》。
而本次我为大家推荐的《The Road Not Taken》则是他最著名的一首诗歌。
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood 黄色的树林里分出两条路And sorry I could not travel both 可惜我不能同时去涉足And be one traveler, long I stood 我在那路口久久伫立And looked down one as far as I could 我向着一条路极目望去To where it bent in the undergrown 直到它消失在丛林深处Then took the other, as just as fair 但我却选了另外一条路And having perhaps the better claim 它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂Because it was grassy and wanted wear; 显得更诱人、更美丽Though as for that the passing there 虽然在这两条小路上Had worn them really about the same 都很少留下旅人的足迹And both that morning equally lay 虽然那天清晨落叶满地In leaves no step had trodden black 两条路都未经脚印污染Oh, I kept the first for another day! 呵，留下一条路等改日再见！Yet knowing how way leads on to way, 但我知道路径延绵无尽头I doubted if I should even come back.恐怕我难以再回返I shall be telling this with a sigh 也许多少年后在某个地方Somewhere ages and ages hence: 我将轻声叹息把往事回顾Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--- 一片树林里分出两条路I took the one less traveled by, 而我选了人迹更少的一条And that has made all the difference 从此决定了我一生的道路评论1："The Road Not Taken" is a poem by Robert Frost, published in 1916 in the collection Mountain Interval, it is the first poem in the volume and is printed in italics. The title is often mistakenly given as "The Road Less Traveled", from the penultimate line:"I took the one less traveled by".The poem has two recognized interpretations; one is a more literal interpretation, while the other is more ironic.Readers often see the poem literally, as an expression of individualism. Critics typically view the poem as ironic.[1] – "'The Road Not Taken,' perhaps the most famous example of Frost's own claims to conscious irony and 'the best example in all of American poetry of a wolf in sheep's clothing.'"[2] – and Frost himself warned "You have to be careful of that one; it's a tricky poem – very tricky."[3] Frost intended the poem as a gentle jab at his great friend and fellow poet Edward Thomas with whom he used to take walks through the forest (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.Literal interpretationAccording to the literal (and more common) interpretation, the poem is inspirational, a paean to individualism and non-conformism.The poem consists of four stanzas. In the first stanza, the speaker describes his position. He has been out walking in the woods and comes to two roads, and he stands looking as far down each one as he can see. He would like to try out both, but doubts he could do that, so therefore he continues to look down the roads for a long time trying to make his decision about which road to take.Ironic interpretationThe ironic interpretation, widely held by critics,[1][5] is that the poem is instead about regret and personal myth-making, rationalizing our decisions.In this interpretation, the final two lines:I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.are ironic : the choice made little or no difference at all, the speaker's protestations to the contrary. The speaker admits in the second and third stanzas that both paths may be equally worn and equally leaf-covered, and it is only in his future recollection that he will call one road "less traveled by".The sigh, widely interpreted as a sigh of regret, might also be interpreted ironically: in a 1925 letter to Cristine Yates of Dickson, Tennessee, asking about the sigh, Frost replied: "It was my rather private jest at the expense of those who might think I would yet live to be sorry for the way I had taken in life."Everyone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous journey, life. There is never a straightpath that leaves one with but a sole direction in which to head. Regardless of the original message that Robert Frost had intended to convey, his poem, "The Road Not Taken", has left its readers with many different interpretations. It is one's past, present and the attitude with which he looks upon his future that determines the shade of the light that he will see the poem in. In any case however, this poem clearly demonstrates Frost's belief that it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man who he is. "And sorry I could not travel both..." It is always difficult to make a decision because it is impossible not to wonder about the opportunity cost, what will be missed out on. There is a strong sense of regret before the choice is even made and it lies in the knowledge that in one lifetime, it is impossible to travel down every path. In an attempt to make a decision, the traveler "looks down one as far as I could". The road that will be chosen leads to the unknown, as does any choice in life. As much he may strain his eyes to see as far the road stretches, eventually it surpasses his vision and he can never see where it is going to lead. It is the way that he chooses here that sets him off on his journey and decides where he is going. "Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim." What made it have the better claim is that "it was grassland wanted wear." It was something that was obviously not for everyone because it seemed that the majority of people took the other path therefore he calls it "the road less traveled by". The fact that the traveler took this path over the more popular, secure one indicates the type of personality he has, one that does not want to necessarily follow the crowd but do more of what has never been done, what is new and different. "And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black." The leaves had covered the ground and since the time they had fallen no one had yet to pass by on this road. Perhaps Frost does this because each time a person comes to the point where they have to make a choice, it is new to them, somewhere they have never been and they tend to feel as though no one else had ever been there either. "I kept the first for another day!" The desire to travel down both paths is expressed and is not unusual, but "knowing how way leads on to way", the speaker of this poem realizes that the decision is not just a temporary one and he "doubted if I should ever come back." This is his common sense speaking and acknowledging that what he chooses now will affect every other choice he makes afterward. Once you have performed an act or spoken a word that crystallizes who you are, there is no turning back and it cannot be undone. Once again at the end of the poem the regret hangs over the traveler like a heavy cloud about to burst. He realizes that at the end of his life, "somewhere ages and ages hence", he will have regrets about having never gone back and traveling down the roads he did not take. Yet he remains proud of his decision and he recognizes that it was this path that he chose that made him turn out the way and he did and live his life the way in which he lived. "I took the road less traveled by and that had made all the difference." To this man, what was most important, what really made the difference, is that he did what he wanted, even if it meant taking the road less traveled. If he hadn't, he wouldn't be the same man he is now. There are many equally valid meanings to this poem and Robert Frost may have intended this.He may have been trying to achieve a universal understanding. In other words, there is no judgment, no specificity, no moral. There is simply a narrator who makes a decision in his life that had changed the direction of his life from what it may have otherwise been. It allows all readers from all different experiences to relate to the poem.评论2：Robert Frost is one of the finest of rural New England’s 20th century pastoral poets. His poems are great combination of wisdom, harmony and serenity. They are simple at first sight, but demand readers for deep reading to grasp further meaning beyond surface.The famous poem of Frost The Road Not Taken is my favorite. This poem consists of four stanzas of five lines. The rhyme scheme is ABAAB. the rhymes are strict and masculine, with notable exception of the last line. There are four stressed syllables each line, varying on iambic tetrameter base.The Road Not Taken tells about life choic e. Man’s life is metaphorically related to a journey filled with twists and turns. One has to consider a lot before making a wise choice. Though the diverged roads seem identical, they actually lead to different directions, which symbolize different fates.A less than rigorous look at the poem may lead one to believe that Frost’s moral is embodied in those lines. The poem is taken as a call to independence, preaching originality and Emersonian self-reliance. The poem deconstructs its conclusion stanza by stanza.At the beginning of this poem, the poet shows the inability of human beings to foresee the future, especially the results of choices. At the split in the road, the speaker looks far down both the two paths to see what each of the paths will bring. Ho wever, his sight is limited; his eyes can only see the path until it bends into “the undergrowth”. Man is free to choose, but doesn’t know beforehand the results of his choice.Both roads diverge into a “yellow wood” and appear to be “about the same” in th eir purposes. The first path is a more common route. The other is less traveled, which “was grass and wanted wear”. The poet presents a conflict here—the decision between the common easy path and exceptional challenging path. The two different paths signify two different kinds of lives. Choosing the common easy path, people will feel at ease and live in safety, because the outcome is predictable. However, that kind of life may be less exciting and lack of novelty. While choosing the “less traveled” road rep resents the gamble of facing a more difficult path in lives. This forms contrast with familiar lives of most people. People hope to achiever a satisfactory and interesting life on this road. The wish is good, but reality is full of challenges and uncertainties. Nobody canbe sure of the outcome. After vacillating between the two roads, the poet finally decides to take the road “less traveled by”and leads a different life from common people. This may indicate his choice to be a poet, other than other jobs. The poet makes up his mind to dedicate himself to poem writing, which is regarded as a less common career.Once the decision is made, there will be no way to return to the original choice to experience the other route. So the poet utters “Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.” The made choice is irrevocable, so man must be careful and rational before making decisions. At the same time, he must be courageous enough to shoulder the result of his choice, whether it is good or not.Frost presents man’s limitation to explore life’s different possibilities. The poet “sighs” at the end of the poem. For at th e time of one’s choice, he must give up other choices and miss some other things. At the same time, he “sighs” with lamentat ion, pondering what he may have missed on the other path and that he doesn’t have opportunities to experience another kind of life.The Road Not Taken is interpreted universally as a representation of two similar choices. At the beginning, man may face two identical forks, which symbolize the nexus of free choice and fate. They contrast increasingly with each other as they diverge in their separate directions. Man is free to choose, but it’s beyond his ability to foretell the consequences. Man can choose a common route which guarantees a safe and reliable life. He can also choose a less common one which is unknown, unique and stands out above other else’s. All in all, man must be responsible for his choice and has courage to shoulder the result. He can never go back to the past and experience other possibilities. It is impossible to predict the outcome of decisions, so it is essential for him to make wise decisions after considering, selecting and questioning which selection will provide him with fulfillment.The Road Not Taken is full of philosophical overtones. This poem should be read as a warning. Man should consider a lot before making choices and reflect over the choices he has made to discover “all the differences”.评论3：Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” has been one of the most analyzed, quoted, anthologized poems in American poetry. A wide-spread interpretation claims that the speaker in the poem is promoting individualism and non-conformity.A Tricky PoemFrost claims that he wrote this poem about his friend Edward Thomas, with whom he had walked many times in the woods near London. Frost has said that while walking they would come to different paths and after choosing one, Thomas would always fret wondering what they might have missed by not taking the other path.About the poem, Frost asserted, "You have to be careful of that one; it's a tricky poem - very tricky." And he is, of course, correct. The poem has been and continues to be used as an inspirational poem, one that to the undiscerning eye seems to be encouraging self-reliance, not following where others have led.But a close reading of the poem proves otherwise. It does not moralize about choice; it simply says that choice is inevitable, but you never know what your choice will mean until you have lived it.First Stanza – Describes SituationThe poem consists of four stanzas. In the first stanza, the speaker describes his position. He has been out walking the woods and comes to two roads, and he stands looking as far down each one as he can see. He would like to try out both, but doubts he could to that, so therefore he continues to look down the roads for a long time trying to make his decision about which road to take.Second Stanza – Decides to Take Less-Traveled RoadThe speaker had looked down the first one “to where it bent in the undergrowth,” and in the second stanza, he reports that he decided to take the other path, because it seemed to have less traffic than the first. But then he goes on to say that they actually were very similarly worn. The second one that he took seems less traveled, but as he thinks about it, he realizes that they were “really about the same.” Not exactly that same but only “about the same.”Third Stanza – Continues Description of RoadsThe third stanza continues with the cogitation about the possible differences between the two roads. He had noticed that the leaves were both fresh fallen on them both and had not been walked on, but then again claims that maybe he would come back and also walk the first one sometime, but he doubted he would be able to, because in life one thing leads to another and time is short.Also on Suite101Frost's Snow and WoodsRobert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" seems simple, but its nuanced phrase, "And miles to go before I sleep," offers much about which to Stanza – Two Tricky WordsThe fourth stanza holds the key to the trickiness of the poem:I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere 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.Those who interpret this poem as suggesting non-conformity take the word “difference” to be a positive difference. But there is nothing in the poem that suggests that this difference signals a positive outcome. The speaker could not offer such information, because he has not lived the “difference” yet.The other word that leads readers astray is the word “sigh.” By taking “difference” to mean a positive difference, they think that the sigh is one of nostalgic relief; however, a sigh can also mean regret. There is the “oh, dear” kind of sigh, but also the “what a relief” kind of sigh. Which one is itIf it is the relief sigh, then the difference means the speaker is glad he took the road he did; if it is the regret sigh, then the difference would not be good, and the speaker would be sighing in regret. But the plain fact is that the poem does not identify the nature of that sigh. The speaker of the poem does not even know the nature of that sigh, because that sigh and his evaluation of the difference his choice will make are still in the future. It is a truism that any choice an indiviual make is going to make “all the difference” in how our future turns out.Careful Readers Won’t Be TrickedSo Frost was absolutely correct; his poem is tricky—very tricky. In this poem, it is important to be careful with the time frame. When the speaker says he will be reporting sometime in the future how his road choice turned out, he clearly states that he cannot assign meaning t o “sigh” and “difference” yet, because he cannot know how his choice will affect his future, until after he has lived it.评论4：1．IntroductionAs is well known to people, Robert Frost is one of the most famous national poets of America. Though contemporary with modernists like . Eliot and Ezra Pound, Robert Frost is often regarded as a traditional poet of nature. He rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporary. On the contrary, he chose “the old- fashioned way to be new and urged poets to use the idioms of spoken English and, when possible, to rely on commonplace and even rustic imagery. And he saw nature as a storehouse of analogy and symbol. However, unlike other poets of nature, he depicted nature as something in constant conflicts with human beings and bring a deep sense of uncertainty and even tragedy to them. Simple as they seem, his poems are often profound in meaning between the lines. Most of his poems are characterized with an unusual sense of tragedy and reflect weakness of human beings in the face of vast, impersonal force.Additionally, the poem reflects Frost’s own personal tragedy and his miserable, sorrowful inner feelings exactly. When itcomes to this, his personal life experience has to be taken into consideration. Famous and popular as he became, but he suffer a lot during all his life. He lost his father as a young boy, and he was bereaved of his beloved wife in his middle age. What is worse, all of his children ended up dying young or suffering from mental disease. For him, life seemed to keep playing tricks on him and made his life miserable. As a result, many poems composed by him, not only this one, are featured with an exotic sense of tragic beauty.2. AnalysisIn this poem, the speaker, a traveler in the wood faced with the choice of two roads. The roads bear two connotations: the material roads and the roads of life. Now, let me give some specific analysis.See over one roadIn part one, the speaker faced with two roads in the autumnal wood and feel puzzled over which one to choose. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”, He stood there for a long time and mused on one of them, which was taken by many people. Unfortunately, he was unable to find out which place the，road would take him to, for it is far beyond his ability to know where the road would lead. However, he must choose to take.. The other oneIn part two, he stepped on the other road, “Then took the other, as just as fair”, It was grassy and not taken. His choi ce would affect every other subsequent choice, and there was no turning back. From his choice for the less trodden road, it could be concluded that he did not like to follow the steps of other people, he wanted his own life choired by himself.HelplessIn part three, he decided to choose the less traveled one, but he was aware that he could never have a chance to return to the first road. “I doubted if I should never come back” showed he is helpless.Chose the less traveled roadIn part four, “I shall be telling this with a sign”, he articulated why he chose the less traveled road, for he expected his life to be unusual and different. But there was no way to foretell the consequences of his choice.All in all, for the speaker, the road of life was accident and mystical, and his very choice was crucial in determining the consequences of his life. The ordinary people follow other’s choice, while the exceptional ones choose their unique roads of life.3. ConclusionEveryone is a travelerEveryone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous journey. There is never a straight path but a sole direction in which to head. It is one's past, present and the attitude with which he looks upon his future that determines the shade of the light.In any case however, this poem clearly explained Frost's belief that it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man who he is. It is always difficult to make a decision because it is impossible not to wonder about the opportunity cost, what will be missed out on. It is impossible to travel down every path. The road that will be chosen leads to the unknown, as does any choice in life. As much he may strain his eyes to see as far the road stretches, eventually it surpasses his vision and he can never see where it is going to lead.It is the way that he chooses here that sets him off on his journey and decides where he is going. It was something that was obviously not for everyone because it seemed that the majority of people took the other path. There is simply a narrator who makes a decision in his life that had changed the direction of his life from what it may have otherwise been. It allows all readers from all different experiences to relate to the poem.Human beings are so weakIn a word, the poem The Road Not Taken is a very beautiful and excellent poem. It is set in a rural natural environment where always inspire the speaker to think of life. It is based on a metaphor in which the journey through life is compared to a journey on a road. And the speaker of the poem has to choose one path instead of another. Even though the two paths look equally attractive, the speaker knows that his choice at this moment may have a significant influence on his future. He does make a decision, hoping that he may be able to visit this place again, yet realizing that such an opportunity is impossible. He imagines himself in the future telling the story of his life, and claiming that his decision to take the road less traveled by, the road few other people have taken, has made all the difference.This thesis intends to explore Frost’s own view of life. He told us that human beings are so weak when compare d with nature and the destiny. Though human beings have made great progress in the past several centuries, there will forever exist something that is far beyond their control. For human, it is unable to do anything useful when he is in conflict with the im personal force. And it’s also unable to control his own destiny; on the contrary, his fate and destiny are in the charge of something mysterious beyond him. In this sense, life is a tragedy to human. So it could be said that Frost conveyed his sense of tragedy common to human through this simple but beautiful poem. It is simple in form but profound in meaning.评论5：SummaryThe speaker stands in the woods, considering a fork in the road. Both ways are equally worn and equally overlaid with un-trodden leaves.The speaker chooses one, telling himself that he will take the other another day. Yet he knows it is unlikely that he will have theopportunity to do so. And he admits that someday in the future he will recreate the scene with a slight twist: He will claim that he took the less-traveled road.From“The Road Not Taken” consists of four stanzas of five lines. The rhyme scheme is ABAAB; the rhymes are strict and masculine, with the notable exception of the last line (we do not usually stress the -ence of difference). There are four stressed syllables per line, varying on an iambic tetrameter base.CommentaryThis has got to be among the best-known, most-often-misunderstood poems on the planet. Several generations of careless readers have turned it into a piece of Hallmark happy-graduation-son, seize-the-future puffery. Cursed with a perfect marriage of form and content, arresting phrase wrought from simple words, and resonant metaphor, it seems as if “The Road Not Taken” gets memorized without really being read. For this it has died the cliché’s un-death of trivial immortality.But you yourself can resurrect it from zombie-hood by reading it—not with imagination, even, but simply with accuracy. Of the two roads the speaker says “the passing there / Had worn them really about the same.” In fact, both roads “that morning lay / In leaves no step had trodden black.” Meaning: Neither of the roads is less traveled by. These are the facts; we cannot justifiably ignore the reverberations they send through the easy aphorisms of the last two stanzas.One of the attractions of the poem is its archetypal dilemma, one that we instantly recognize because each of us encounters it innumerable times, both literally and figuratively. Paths in the woods and forks in roads are ancient and deep-seated metaphors for the lifeline, its crises and decisions. Identical forks, in particular, symbolize for us the nexus of free will and fate: We are free to choose, but we do not really know beforehand what we are choosing between. Our route is, thus, determined by an accretion of choice and chance, and it is impossible to separate the two.This poem does not advise. It does not say, “When you come to a fork in the road, study the footprints and take the road less traveled by” (or even, as Yogi Berra enigmatically quipped, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it”). Frost’s focus is more complicated. First, there is no less-traveled road in this poem; it isn’t even an option. Next, the poem seems more concerned with the question of how the concrete present (yellow woods, grassy roads covered in fallen leaves) will look froma future vantage point.The ironic tone is inescapable: “I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence.” The speaker anticipate s his own future insincerity—his need, later on in life, to rearrange the facts and inject a dose of Lone Ranger into the account. He knows that he will be inaccurate, at best, or hypocritical, at worst, when he holds his life up as an example. In fact, he predicts that his future self will betray this moment of decision as if the betrayal were inevitable. This realization is ironic and poignantly pathetic. But the “sigh” is critical. The speaker will not, in his old age, merely gather the youth about him and say, “Do what I did, kiddies. I stuck to my guns, took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Rather, he may say this, but he will sigh first; for he won’t believe it himself. Somewhere in the back of his mind will remain the imag e of yellow woods and two equally leafy paths.Ironic as it is, this is also a poem infused with the anticipation of remorse. Its title is not “The Road Less Traveled” but “The Road Not Taken.” Even as he makes a choice (a choice he is forced to make if does not wa nt to stand forever in the woods, one for which he has no real guide or definitive basis for decision-making), the speaker knows that he will second-guess himself somewhere down the line—or at the very least he will wonder at what is irrevocably lost: the impossible, unknowable Other Path. But the nature of the decision is such that there is no Right Path—just the chosen path and the other path. What are sighed for ages and ages hence are not so much the wrong decisions as the moments of decision themselves—moments that, one atop the other, mark the passing of a life. This is the more primal strain of remorse.Thus, to add a further level of irony, the theme of the poem may, after all, be “seize the day.” But a more nuanced carpe diem, if you please.。
the road not taken翻译及赏析
The Road Not Taken 《未选择的路》罗伯特•弗罗斯特（Robert Frost）生于1874年，卒于1963年，可能要算是20世纪美国最受欢迎和爱戴的一位诗人了。
1912年，他弃农从文，从此成为了一名专业诗人。
他曾在1961年时受邀在约翰•F•肯尼迪总统的就职典礼上朗诵他的诗歌——《The Gift Outright》。
而本次我为大家推荐的《The Road Not Taken》则是他最著名的一首诗歌。
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood 黄色的树林里分出两条路And sorry I could not travel both 可惜我不能同时去涉足And be one traveler, long I stood 我在那路口久久伫立And looked down one as far as I could 我向着一条路极目望去To where it bent in the undergrown 直到它消失在丛林深处Then took the other, as just as fair 但我却选了另外一条路And having perhaps the better claim 它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂Because it was grassy and wanted wear; 显得更诱人、更美丽Though as for that the passing there 虽然在这两条小路上Had worn them really about the same 都很少留下旅人的足迹And both that morning equally lay 虽然那天清晨落叶满地In leaves no step had trodden black 两条路都未经脚印污染Oh, I kept the first for another day! 呵，留下一条路等改日再见！Yet knowing how way leads on to way, 但我知道路径延绵无尽头I doubted if I should even come back.恐怕我难以再回返I shall be telling this with a sigh 也许多少年后在某个地方Somewhere ages and ages hence: 我将轻声叹息把往事回顾Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--- 一片树林里分出两条路I took the one less traveled by, 而我选了人迹更少的一条And that has made all the difference 从此决定了我一生的道路评论1："The Road Not Taken" is a poem by Robert Frost, published in 1916 in the collection Mountain Interval, it is the first poem in the volume and is printed in italics. The title is often mistakenly given as "The Road Less Traveled", from the penultimate line: "I took the one less traveled by".The poem has two recognized interpretations; one is a more literal interpretation, while the other is more ironic.Readers often see the poem literally, as an expression of individualism. Critics typically view the poem as ironic.[1] – "'The Road Not Taken,' perhaps the most famous example of Frost's own claims to conscious irony and 'the best example in all of American poetry of a wolf in sheep's clothing.'"[2] – and Frost himself warned "You have to be careful of that one; it's a tricky poem – very tricky."[3] Frost intended the poem as a gentle jab at his great friend and fellow poet Edward Thomas with whom he used to take walks through the forest (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.Literal interpretationAccording to the literal (and more common) interpretation, the poem is inspirational, a paean to individualism and non-conformism.The poem consists of four stanzas. In the first stanza, the speaker describes his position. He has been out walking in the woods and comes to two roads, and he stands looking as far down each one as he can see. He would like to try out both, but doubts he could do that, so therefore he continues to look down the roads for a long time trying to make his decision about which road to take.Ironic interpretationThe ironic interpretation, widely held by critics,[1][5] is that the poem is instead about regret and personal myth-making,rationalizing our decisions.In this interpretation, the final two lines:I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.are ironic : the choice made little or no difference at all, the speaker's protestations to the contrary. The speaker admits in the second and third stanzas that both paths may be equally worn and equally leaf-covered, and it is only in his future recollection that he will call one road "less traveled by".The sigh, widely interpreted as a sigh of regret, might also be interpreted ironically: in a 1925 letter to Cristine Yates of Dickson, Tennessee, asking about the sigh, Frost replied: "It was my rather private jest at the expense of those who might think I would yet live to be sorry for the way I had taken in life."Everyone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous journey, life. There is never a straight path that leaves one with but a sole direction in which to head. Regardless of the original message that Robert Frost had intended to convey, his poem, "The Road Not Taken", has left its readers with many different interpretations. It is one's past, present and the attitude with which he looks upon his future that determines the shade of the light that he will see the poem in. In any case however, this poem clearly demonstrates Frost's belief that it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man who he is. "And sorry I could not travel both..." It is always difficult to make a decision because it is impossible not to wonder about the opportunity cost, what will be missed out on. There is a strong sense of regret before the choice is even made and it lies in the knowledge that in one lifetime, it is impossible to travel down every path. In an attempt to make a decision, the traveler "looks down one as far as I could". The road that will be chosen leads to the unknown, as does any choice in life. As much he may strain his eyes to see as far the road stretches, eventually it surpasses his vision and he can never see where it is going to lead. It is the way that he chooses here that sets him off on his journey and decides where he is going. "Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim." What made it have the better claim is that "it was grassland wanted wear." It was something that was obviously not for everyone because it seemed that the majority of people took the other path therefore he calls it "the road less traveled by". The fact that the traveler took this path over the more popular, secure one indicates the type of personality he has, one that does not want to necessarily follow the crowd but do more of what has never been done, what is new and different. "And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black." The leaves had covered the ground and since the time they had fallen no one had yet to pass by on this road. Perhaps Frost does this because each time a person comes to the point where they have to make a choice, it is new to them, somewhere they have never been and they tend to feel as though no one else had ever been there either. "I kept the first for another day!" The desire to travel down both paths is expressed and is not unusual, but "knowing how way leads on to way", the speaker of this poem realizes that the decision is not just a temporary one and he "doubted if I should ever come back." This is his common sense speaking and acknowledging that what he chooses now will affect every other choice he makes afterward. Once you have performed an act or spoken a word that crystallizes who you are, there is no turning back and it cannot be undone. Once again at the end of the poem the regret hangs over the traveler like a heavy cloud about to burst. He realizes that at the end of his life, "somewhere ages and ages hence", he will have regrets about having never gone back and traveling down the roads he did not take. Yet he remains proud of his decision and he recognizes that it was this path that he chose that made him turn out the way and he did and live his life the way in which he lived. "I took the road less traveled by and that had made all the difference." To this man, what was most important, what really made the difference, is that he did what he wanted, even if it meant taking the road less traveled. If he hadn't, he wouldn't be the same man he is now. There are many equally valid meanings to this poem and Robert Frost may have intended this. He may have been trying to achieve a universal understanding. In other words, there is no judgment, no specificity, no moral. There is simply a narrator who makes a decision in his life that had changed the direction of his life from what it may have otherwise been. It allows all readers from all different experiences to relate to the poem.评论2：Robert Frost is one of the finest of rural New England’s 20th century pastoral poets. His poems are great combination ofwisdom, harmony and serenity. They are simple at first sight, but demand readers for deep reading to grasp further meaning beyond surface.The famous poem of Frost The Road Not Taken is my favorite. This poem consists of four stanzas of five lines. The rhyme scheme is ABAAB. the rhymes are strict and masculine, with notable exception of the last line. There are four stressed syllables each line, varying on iambic tetrameter base.The Road Not Taken tells about life choice. Man’s life is metaphorically related to a journey filled with twists and turns. O ne has to consider a lot before making a wise choice. Though the diverged roads seem identical, they actually lead to different directions, which symbolize different fates.A less than rigorous look at the poem may lead one to believe that Frost’s moral is embodied in those lines. The poem is take n as a call to independence, preaching originality and Emersonian self-reliance. The poem deconstructs its conclusion stanza by stanza.At the beginning of this poem, the poet shows the inability of human beings to foresee the future, especially the results of choices. At the split in the road, the speaker looks far down both the two paths to see what each of the paths will bring. However, his sight is limited; his eyes can only see the path until it bends into “the undergrowth”. Man is free to choose, b ut doesn’t know beforehand the results of hi s choice.Both roads diverge into a “yellow wood” and appear to be “about the same” in their purposes. The first path is a more common route. The other is less traveled, which “was grass and wanted wear”. The poet presents a conflict here—the decision between the common easy path and exceptional challenging path. The two different paths signify two different kinds of lives. Choosing the common easy path, people will feel at ease and live in safety, because the outcome is predictable. However, that kind of l ife may be less exciting and lack of novelty. While choosing the “less traveled” road represents the gamble of facing a more difficult path in lives. This forms contrast with familiar lives of most people. People hope to achiever a satisfactory and interesting life on this road. The wish is good, but reality is full of challenges and uncertainties. Nobody can be sure of the outcome. After vacillating between the two roads, the poet finally decides to take the road “less traveled by” and leads a different life from common people. This may indicate his choice to be a poet, other than other jobs. The poet makes up his mind to dedicate himself to poem writing, which is regarded as a less common career.Once the decision is made, there will be no way to return to the original choice to experience the other route. So the poet utters “Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.” The made choice is irrevocable, so man must be careful and rational before making decisions. At the same time, he must be courageous enough to shoulder the result of his choice, whether it is good or not.Frost presents man’s limitation to explore life’s different possibilities. The poet “sighs” at the end of the poem. For at th e time of one’s choice, he must give up other choices and miss some other things. At the same time, he “sighs” with lamentation, pondering what he may have missed on the other path and that he doesn’t have opportunities to experience another kind of life.The Road Not Taken is interpreted universally as a representation of two similar choices. At the beginning, man may face two identical forks, which symbolize the nexus of free choice and fate. They contrast increasingly with each other as they diverge in their separate directions. Man is fr ee to choose, but it’s beyond his ability to foretell the consequences. Man can choose a common route which guarantees a safe and reliable life. He can also choose a less common one which is unknown, unique and stands out above other else’s. All in all, ma n must be responsible for his choice and has courage to shoulder the result. He can never go back to the past and experience other possibilities. It is impossible to predict the outcome of decisions, so it is essential for him to make wise decisions after considering, selecting and questioning which selection will provide him with fulfillment.The Road Not Taken is full of philosophical overtones. This poem should be read as a warning. Man should consider a lot before making choices and reflect over the cho ices he has made to discover “all the differences”.评论3：Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” has been one of the most analyzed, quoted, anthologized poems in American poetry. A wide-spread interpretation claims that the speaker in the poem is promoting individualism and non-conformity.A Tricky PoemFrost claims that he wrote this poem about his friend Edward Thomas, with whom he had walked many times in the woods near London. Frost has said that while walking they would come to different paths and after choosing one, Thomas would always fret wondering what they might have missed by not taking the other path.About the poem, Frost asserted, "You have to be careful of that one; it's a tricky poem - very tricky." And he is, of course, correct. The poem has been and continues to be used as an inspirational poem, one that to the undiscerning eye seems to be encouraging self-reliance, not following where others have led.But a close reading of the poem proves otherwise. It does not moralize about choice; it simply says that choice is inevitable, but you never know what your choice will mean until you have lived it.First Stanza – Describes SituationThe poem consists of four stanzas. In the first stanza, the speaker describes his position. He has been out walking the woods and comes to two roads, and he stands looking as far down each one as he can see. He would like to try out both, but doubts he could to that, so therefore he continues to look down the roads for a long time trying to make his decision about which road to take.Second Stanza – Decides to Take Less-Traveled RoadThe speaker had looked down the first one “to where it bent in the undergrowth,” and in the second stanza, he reports that he decided to take the other path, because it seemed to have less traffic than the first. But then he goes on to say that they actually were very similarly worn. The second one that he took seems less traveled, but as he thinks about it, he realizes that they were “really about the same.” Not exactly that same but only “about the same.”Third Stanza – Continues Description of RoadsThe third stanza continues with the cogitation about the possible differences between the two roads. He had noticed that the leaves were both fresh fallen on them both and had not been walked on, but then again claims that maybe he would come back and also walk the first one sometime, but he doubted he would be able to, because in life one thing leads to another and time is short.Also on Suite101Frost's Snow and WoodsRobert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" seems simple, but its nuanced phrase, "And miles to go before I sleep," offers much about which to speculate.Fourth Stanza – Two Tricky WordsThe fourth stanza holds the key to the trickiness of the poem:I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere 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.Those who interpret this poem as suggesting non-conformity take the word “difference” to be a positive difference. But there is nothing in the poem that suggests that this difference signals a positive outcome. The speaker could not offer such information, because he has not lived the “difference” yet.The other word that leads readers astray is the word “sigh.” By taking “difference” to mean a positive diffe rence, they think that the sigh is one of nostalgic relief; however, a sigh can also mean regret. There is the “oh, dear” kind of sigh, but als o the “what a relief” kind of sigh. Which one is it?If it is the relief sigh, then the difference means the speaker is glad he took the road he did; if it is the regret sigh, then the difference would not be good, and the speaker would be sighing in regret. But the plain fact is that the poem does not identify the nature of that sigh. The speaker of the poem does not even know the nature of that sigh, because that sigh and his evaluation of the difference his choice will make are still in the future. It is a truism that any choice an indiviual make is going to make “all the difference” in how our future turns out.Ca reful Readers Won’t Be TrickedSo Frost was absolutely correct; his poem is tricky—very tricky. In this poem, it is important to be careful with the time frame. When the speaker says he will be reporting sometime in the future how his road choice turned out, he clearly states that he cannot assign meaning to “sigh” and “difference” yet, because he cannot know how his choice will affect his future, until aft erhe has lived it.评论4：1．IntroductionAs is well known to people, Robert Frost is one of the most famous national poets of America. Though contemporary with modernists like T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Robert Frost is often regarded as a traditional poet of nature. He rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporary. On the contrary, he ch ose “the old- fashioned way to be new and urged poets to use the idioms of spoken English and, when possible, to rely on commonplace and even rustic imagery. And he saw nature as a storehouse of analogy and symbol. However, unlike other poets of nature, he depicted nature as something in constant conflicts with human beings and bring a deep sense of uncertainty and even tragedy to them. Simple as they seem, his poems are often profound in meaning between the lines. Most of his poems are characterized with an unusual sense of tragedy and reflect weakness of human beings in the face of vast, impersonal force.Additionally, the poem reflects Frost’s own personal tragedy and his miserable, sorrowful inner feelings exactly. When it comes to this, his personal life experience has to be taken into consideration. Famous and popular as he became, but he suffer a lot during all his life. He lost his father as a young boy, and he was bereaved of his beloved wife in his middle age. What is worse, all of his children ended up dying young or suffering from mental disease. For him, life seemed to keep playing tricks on him and made his life miserable. As a result, many poems composed by him, not only this one, are featured with an exotic sense of tragic beauty.2. AnalysisIn this poem, the speaker, a traveler in the wood faced with the choice of two roads. The roads bear two connotations: the material roads and the roads of life. Now, let me give some specific analysis.2.1 See over one roadIn part o ne, the speaker faced with two roads in the autumnal wood and feel puzzled over which one to choose. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”, He stood there for a long time and mused on one of them, which was taken by many people. Unfortunately, he was unable to find out which place the，road would take him to, for it is far beyond his ability to know where the road would lead. However, he must choose to take.2.2. The other oneIn part two, he stepped on the other road, “Then took the other, as just as fair”, It was grassy and not taken. His choice would affect every other subsequent choice, and there was no turning back. From his choice for the less trodden road, it could be concluded that he did not like to follow the steps of other people, he wanted his own life choired by himself.2.3 HelplessIn part three, he decided to choose the less traveled one, but he was aware that he could never have a chance to return to the first road. “I doubted if I should never come back” showed he is helpless.2.4 Chose the less traveled roadIn part four, “I shall be telling this with a sign”, he articulated why he chose the less traveled road, for he expected his life to be unusual and different. But there was no way to foretell the consequences of his choice.All in all, for the speaker, the road of life was accident and mystical, and his very choice was crucial in determining the consequences of his life. The ordinary people follow other’s choice, while the exceptional ones choose their unique roads of life.3. Conclusion3.1 Everyone is a travelerEveryone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous journey. There is never a straight path but a sole direction in which to head. It is one's past, present and the attitude with which he looks upon his future that determines the shade of the light.In any case however, this poem clearly explained Frost's belief that it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man who he is. It is always difficult to make a decision because it is impossible not to wonder about the opportunity cost, what willbe missed out on. It is impossible to travel down every path. The road that will be chosen leads to the unknown, as does any choice in life. As much he may strain his eyes to see as far the road stretches, eventually it surpasses his vision and he can never see where it is going to lead.It is the way that he chooses here that sets him off on his journey and decides where he is going. It was something that was obviously not for everyone because it seemed that the majority of people took the other path. There is simply a narrator who makes a decision in his life that had changed the direction of his life from what it may have otherwise been. It allows all readers from all different experiences to relate to the poem.3.2 Human beings are so weakIn a word, the poem The Road Not Taken is a very beautiful and excellent poem. It is set in a rural natural environment where always inspire the speaker to think of life. It is based on a metaphor in which the journey through life is compared to a journey on a road. And the speaker of the poem has to choose one path instead of another. Even though the two paths look equally attractive, the speaker knows that his choice at this moment may have a significant influence on his future. He does make a decision, hoping that he may be able to visit this place again, yet realizing that such an opportunity is impossible. He imagines himself in the future telling the story of his life, and claiming that his decision to take the road less traveled by, the road few other people have taken, has made all the difference.This thesis intends to explore Frost’s own view of life. He told us that human beings are so weak when compared with nature and the destiny. Though human beings have made great progress in the past several centuries, there will forever exist something that is far beyond their control. For human, it is unable to do anything useful when he is in conflict with the impersonal force. And it’s also unable to control his own destiny; on the contrary, his fate and destiny are in the charge of something mysterious beyond him. In this sense, life is a tragedy to human. So it could be said that Frost conveyed his sense of tragedy common to human through this simple but beautiful poem. It is simple in form but profound in meaning.评论5：SummaryThe speaker stands in the woods, considering a fork in the road. Both ways are equally worn and equally overlaid withun-trodden leaves. The speaker chooses one, telling himself that he will take the other another day. Yet he knows it is unlikely that he will have the opportunity to do so. And he admits that someday in the future he will recreate the scene with a slight twist: He will claim that he took the less-traveled road.From“The Road Not Taken” consists of four stanzas of five lines. Th e rhyme scheme is ABAAB; the rhymes are strict and masculine, with the notable exception of the last line (we do not usually stress the -ence of difference). There are four stressed syllables per line, varying on an iambic tetrameter base.CommentaryThis has got to be among the best-known, most-often-misunderstood poems on the planet. Several generations of careless readers have turned it into a piece of Hallmark happy-graduation-son, seize-the-future puffery. Cursed with a perfect marriage of form and co ntent, arresting phrase wrought from simple words, and resonant metaphor, it seems as if “The Road Not Taken” gets memorized without really being read. For this it has died the cliché’s un-death of trivial immortality.But you yourself can resurrect it from zombie-hood by reading it—not with imagination, even, but simply with accuracy. Of the two roads the speaker says “the passing there / Had worn them really about the same.” In fact, both roads “that morning lay / In leaves no step had trodden black.” Me aning: Neither of the roads is less traveled by. These are the facts; we cannot justifiably ignore the reverberations they send through the easy aphorisms of the last two stanzas.One of the attractions of the poem is its archetypal dilemma, one that we instantly recognize because each of us encounters itinnumerable times, both literally and figuratively. Paths in the woods and forks in roads are ancient and deep-seated metaphors for the lifeline, its crises and decisions. Identical forks, in particular, symbolize for us the nexus of free will and fate: We are free to choose, but we do not really know beforehand what we are choosing between. Our route is, thus, determined by an accretion of choice and chance, and it is impossible to separate the two.This poem does not advise. It does not say, “When you come to a fork in the road, study the footprints and take the road less traveled by” (or even, as Yogi Berra enigmatically quipped, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it”). Frost’s focus is more complicated. First, there is no less-traveled road in this poem; it isn’t even an option. Next, the poem seems more concerned with the question of how the concrete present (yellow woods, grassy roads covered in fallen leaves) will look from a future vantage point.The ironic tone is inescapable: “I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence.” The speaker anticipate s his own future insincerity—his need, later on in life, to rearrange the facts and inject a dose of Lone Ranger into the account. He knows that he will be inaccurate, at best, or hypocritical, at worst, when he holds his life up as an example. In fact, he predicts that his future self will betray this moment of decision as if the betrayal were inevitable. This realization is ironic and poignantly pathetic. But the “sigh” is critical. The speaker will not, in his old age, merely gather the youth about him and say, “Do what I did, kiddies. I stuck to my guns, took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Rather, he may say this, but he will sigh first; for he won’t believe it himself. Somewhere in the back of his mind will remain the imag e of yellow woods and two equally leafy paths.Ironic as it is, this is also a poem infused with the anticipation o f remorse. Its title is not “The Road Less Traveled” but “The Road Not Taken.” Even as he makes a choice (a choice he is forced to make if does not want to stand forever in the woods, one for which he has no real guide or definitive basis for decision-making), the speaker knows that he will second-guess himself somewhere down the line—or at the very least he will wonder at what is irrevocably lost: the impossible, unknowable Other Path. But the nature of the decision is such that there is no Right Path—just the chosen path and the other path. What are sighed for ages and ages hence are not so much the wrong decisions as the moments of decision themselves—moments that, one atop the other, mark the passing of a life. This is the more primal strain of remorse.Thus, to add a further level of irony, the theme of the poem may, after all, be “seize the day.” But a more nuanced carpe die m, if you please.。
少有人走的路the road not taken-教学课件
黄色的树林里分出两条路， 可惜我不能同时去涉足， 我在那路口久久伫立， 我向着一条路极目望去， 直到它消失在丛林深 处。 但我却选择了另外一条路， 它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂， 显得更诱人，更美丽； 虽然在这条小路上， 很少留下旅人的足迹。 那天清晨落叶满地， 两条路都未经脚印污染。
未选择的路
呵，留下一条路等改日再见! 但我知道路径延绵无尽头, 恐怕我难以再回返。
黄色的树林里分出两条路， 可惜我不能同时去涉足， 我在那路口久久伫立， 我向着一条路极目望去， 直到它消失在丛林深处。
但我却选择了另外一条路， 它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂， 显得更诱人，更美丽；
虽然在这条小路上， 很少留下旅人的足迹。 那天清晨落叶满地， 两条路都未经脚印污染。
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
tworoadsdivergedoneless较少的traveledhasmadealldifference不同许多年后在某个地方一片树林里分出两条路我选择了一条少有人走的一条这改变了一切11诗中的叙述者在清晨散步时来到了林间的一个岔道口在他面前有两条路可供选择
The Road Not Taken 未选择的路
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The Rainbow
William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky So was it when my life began So is it now I am a man So be it when I shall grow old Or let me die The child is father of the man And I could wish my days to be bound each to each by natural piety
Scanning and questions 1.Frost based his poem on__. A.his practice B.his walk C.his friend’s experience 2.Frost first became successful in__. A.America B.England C.New England 3.Edward Thomas__. A.like the poem very much B.didn't’t quite understand the joke that wanted to make C.was disappointed by Frost’s irony
Robert Frost
思考
If you are in the situation as shown in the picture, what will you do?why?Discuss with your partner
词汇
Undergrowth Grassy Familiar: to s.b./with sth. Practice:练习;习惯 enable
听录音，注意韵律，试回答以下问题 1.what was the speaker sorry about? 2.why did the poet stand there for a long time? 3.which road did the speaker take? Why? 4.what does the word”sigh”imply? 5.how do you understand the word”road”in the poem?
1.Enable sb to do 使––能干 Sigh over 为––叹气 Of one’s own 属于某人自己的 Ask a question of sb 问某人问题 devote oneself to 献身与某物；为某 人、某物付出（时间，精力等）
宾语从句
Frost learned something from this sighing over what might… Never did he admit that he carried himself…(倒 装)
POETRY
外国语学院 英语一班 刘圆圆
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Poems are images in your mind. They let you go beyond the surface and discover your deepest feelings.
你的理解？ 1.the best Chinese translation for “the road not taken” is__. 2.have a look at the former picture and guess the meaning of the word”diverge”. 3.what do you think the “difference”is? 4.what can we learn from it?
4.Robert Frost__. A.told his audience directly what he poem about B.was disappointed by his audience not understanding his poem in the true sense
短语，句型讲解
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