Posté le 3 décembre 2014 - par therhythmofwords

The Road Not Taken

    Hi !

Today I present a brief extract from « The road not taken » by Robert Frost. Robert Frost is an American poet born in San Francisco in 1874 and died in Boston in 1963. He led a sad life according to his biographer : he hit failures and many deaths. In his work, he is different from numerous authors from the same period because he didn’t glorify neither modernity nor trust in the mankind¹ . He won four times the Putziler Price.

In its globality « The Road not taken » deals with the choice of one road during a walk. The title is curious because it focuses on the road neglected. Enjoy the reading !

1) Robert Frost, Richard Poirier (ed.) et Mark Richardson (ed.), Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays, vol. vol.81, New York, Library of America, coll. « The Library of America »,‎ 1995

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;

Robert Frost

Some words :

a wood : un bois

to bend : se courber

undergrowth : les sous-bois

Here is the link for an audio reading of the poem : http://reelyredd.com/0602roadtravel.htm.