The Road Not Taken (未選擇的路)

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.

未選擇的路

The Road Not Taken

羅伯特.弗羅斯特(1874一1963)是在馬薩諸塞州勞倫斯上的中學(xué)，也在達(dá)特第斯學(xué)院和哈佛大學(xué)讀過(guò)一段時(shí)間。獲得詩(shī)名之前，弗羅斯特時(shí)而務(wù)農(nóng)，時(shí)而到中學(xué)教希臘語(yǔ)和拉丁語(yǔ)。他的第一部詩(shī)集出版于1913年。1916年后，他一直在著名學(xué)府任職，通常的身份是“住校詩(shī)人”。弗羅斯特的詩(shī)歌備受喜愛(ài)，原因之一是未受過(guò)多少學(xué)校教育的人都看得懂。當(dāng)許多詩(shī)人熱衷于搞詩(shī)歌試驗(yàn)時(shí)，他卻堅(jiān)持使用日常語(yǔ)言，描寫自己觀察入微的日常事件。弗羅斯特的許多詩(shī)歌反映了他與大自然的貼近。他通過(guò)自然來(lái)表達(dá)一種象征意義，而不是什么田園式的思鄉(xiāng)情調(diào)。《未選擇的路》是弗羅斯特的一首名詩(shī)，作于1915年。

黃葉林中出條岔路，

無(wú)奈一人難于兼顧，

順著一條婉蜒小路，

久久佇立極目遠(yuǎn)眺，

只見(jiàn)小徑拐進(jìn)灌木。

接著選擇了另一條，

同樣清楚似乎更好，

引人踩踏鋪滿茂草，

踏在其間難分彼此，

盡管真有兩條道。

清晨里躺著兩條路，

一樣葉被無(wú)人踏臟，

愿將第一條來(lái)日補(bǔ)，

但知條條相連遠(yuǎn)途，

懷疑日后怎能回返。

在很久以后某一地，

我將嘆息訴說(shuō)于人，

兩路岔開(kāi)在樹(shù)林里，

我選的那條足跡稀，

而一切差別由此起