" The Road Not Taken"

Every Monday I will try to be posting a motivational poem.  It will either be one that I have written or one that really inspires me. The first one will be by Robert Frost, one of my favorite authors.

    It tells about life and the roads that people take.  It is one of my favorite because of the way that Frost compares a long weary road to life.  It tells how life is up to us and the goals we set for ourselves should be attainable.  "The Road Not Taken," is told by the weary traveler in the poem and that is my favorite part in the poem itself.  He tells of how his dreams were unreachable because he chose to take the road less traveled.  Well, it really does not say that in the poem, but it leads you to believe that the traveler felt lonesome and friendless because he made the wrong choice at first and the decided to take the right path even though it was more difficult.  This poem is has always been one of my favorites and always will be.

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

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

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.