The Road Not Taken, Poem By Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken was written by Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963), an American poet, who frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century.

A life commentary that finds relevance in contemporary time, it is indeed an archetype of a masterpiece .

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,

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And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

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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.