Take the Unpaved Road

{A written practice}

Take the Unpaved Road

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost

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Who taught us this?

The poem is by American poet Robert Frost. "The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem, published in 1916 as the first poem in the collection Mountain Interval.

Who taught us this?

The poem is by American poet Robert Frost. "The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem, published in 1916 as the first poem in the collection Mountain Interval.

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