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The Road Not Taken (未选择的路)
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 marked 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.
未选择的路
The Road Not Taken
罗伯特.弗罗斯特(1874一1963)是在马萨诸塞州劳伦斯上的中学，也在达特第斯学院和哈佛大学读过一段时间。获得诗名之前，弗罗斯特时而务农，时而到中学教希腊语和拉丁语。他的第一部诗集出版于1913年。1916年后，他一直在著名学府任职，通常的身份是“住校诗人”。弗罗斯特的诗歌备受喜爱，原因之一是未受过多少学校教育的人都看得懂。当许多诗人热衷于搞诗歌试验时，他却坚持使用日常语言，描写自己观察入微的日常事件。弗罗斯特的许多诗歌反映了他与大自然的贴近。他通过自然来表达一种象征意义，而不是什么田园式的思乡情调。《未选择的路》是弗罗斯特的一首名诗，作于1915年。
黄叶林中出条岔路，
无奈一人难于兼顾，
顺着一条婉蜒小路，
久久伫立极目远眺，
只见小径拐进灌木。
接着选择了另一条，
同样清楚似乎更好，
引人踩踏铺满茂草，
踏在其间难分彼此，
尽管真有两条道。
清晨里躺着两条路，
一样叶被无人踏脏，
愿将第一条来日补，
但知条条相连远途，
怀疑日后怎能回返。
在很久以后某一地，
我将叹息诉说于人，
两路岔开在树林里，
我选的那条足迹稀，
而一切差别由此起 |
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发表于 2016-7-10 11:14:35