If Robert Frost were a cynic, would the poem have ended differently?
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
and looked down one as far as I could
to where it bent in the undergrowth;
If Robert Frost were a cynic, would the poem have ended differently?
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
and looked down one as far as I could
to where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
and having perhaps the better claim
because it was grassy and wanted wear;
though as for that, the passing there
had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
in leaves no feet had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less travelled by,
AND I GOT STUCK UP TO MY TIRE RIMS IN MUD!
Kids, sometimes it's better to just shut up and follow the crowd.