I would post one of my favorite poems by someone a bit more
famous. This is the very first poem that I memorized when
I first started doing some of my own writing. How was I to
know how true to my life this great work of art would turn
out to be......
March 26, 1874-January 29, 1963
March 26, 1874-January 29, 1963
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."--Robert Frost
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;
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.
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.
2 comments:
The first poem that I memorized was:
I eat my peas with honey
I've done it all my life
It makes them taste quite funny
but, it keeps them on my knife.
Anonymous
To date, it is the only poem I have ever committed to memory.
Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets and I especially like this one. I also love "Stopping by the woods on snowy evening" and "Nothing gold can stay"
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