The Road Not Taken Robert 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.

中文翻譯:
The road not taken　　　Robert Frost
未行之路　　　　　（美）羅勃．佛洛斯特


黃樹林裡分叉兩條路，
只可惜我不能都踏行。
我，單獨的旅人，佇立良久，
極目眺望一條路的盡頭，看他隱沒在林從深處。

於是我選擇了另一條路，
一樣平直，也許更值得，
因為青草茵茵，還未被踩過，
若有過往人蹤，路的狀況會相差無幾。
那天早晨，兩條路都覆蓋在枯葉下，沒有踐踏的污痕；
啊，原先那條路留給另一天吧！
明知一條路會引出另一條路，
我懷疑我是否會回到原處。

在許多許多年以後，在某處，
我會輕輕嘆息說：
黃樹林裡分叉兩條路，而我----
選擇了較少人跡的一條，
使得一切多麼地不同。


賞析:
詩人佛洛斯特（Robert Frost）在他的詩作「未行之路」（”The Road Not Taken”）之中所說的： Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler.... Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. （Frost, 1936:131） 人類的一生，可說是由一系列代表著不同選擇的叉路（branching）所構成，人類的自由，也只能在這種選擇的情境中方能表現。 當然，個人將成為什麼，並非單純地只是個人抉擇的函數，另一個原因是這些抉擇需要個人後續的大量的人為努力，方可能成功地實現（假設你沒有什麼過人的特權）。抉擇，然後堅持到底。這段期間，你可能會遭遇許多阻礙，承受沮喪乃至精疲力盡。因此，你必須對你抉擇之目標有所堅持與承諾。




參考資料 http://www.nylon.org.tw/showArticle.jsp?id=23 http://www.chilin.org.tw/tom/poem.htm http://myoung.myweb.hinet.net/poetry/robert_frost.htm