羅伯特·弗羅斯特
(ROBERT FROST)
未選擇的路
The Road Not Taken
羅伯特·弗羅斯特(1874壹1963)是在馬薩諸塞州勞倫斯上的中學，也在達特第斯學院和哈佛大學讀過壹段時間。獲得詩名之前，弗羅斯特時而務農，時而到中學教希臘語和拉丁語。他的第壹部詩集出版於1913年。1916年後，他壹直在著名學府任職，通常的身份是“住校詩人”。弗羅斯特的詩歌備受喜愛，原因之壹是未受過多少學校教育的人都看得懂。當許多詩人熱衷於搞詩歌試驗時，他卻堅持使用日常語言，描寫自己觀察入微的日常事件。弗羅斯特的許多詩歌反映了他與大自然的貼近。他通過自然來表達壹種象征意義，而不是什麽田園式的思鄉情調。《未選擇的路》是弗羅斯特的壹首名詩，作於1915年。
黃色的樹林裏分出兩條路，
可惜我不能同時去涉足，
我在那路口久久佇立，
我向著壹條路極目望去，
直到它消失在叢林深處。
但我選了另外壹條路，
它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂，
顯得更誘人，更美麗；
雖然在這條小路上，
很少留下旅人的足跡。
那天清晨落葉滿地，
兩條路都未經腳印汙染。
啊，留下壹條路等改日再見！
但我知道路徑延綿無盡頭，
恐怕我難以再回返。
也許多少年後在某個地方，
我將輕聲嘆息將往事回顧：
壹片樹林裏分出兩條路——
而我選擇了人跡更少的壹條，
從此決定了我壹生的道路。
英文版：
The Road Not Taken
writen by Robert Lee Frost
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.