Frost (1874- 1963) is an American poet.
Translation: Gu
There are two roads in the yellow forest.
Unfortunately, I can't participate at the same time.
I stood at that intersection for a long time,
I thought of a way and tried my best to find it.
Until it disappeared into the jungle.
But I chose another path,
It's lush and lonely,
Appear more attractive and beautiful;
Although on these two paths,
There are few travelers' footprints.
Although the leaves fell to the ground that morning,
Neither road is polluted by footprints.
Ah, leave a way, see you another day!
But I know this road has no end,
I'm afraid I can't go back.
Maybe in a few years, somewhere,
I will sigh softly and look back:
There are two roads in the forest-
I chose a lonely one,
From then on, it decided my life path.
The Road Not Taken is a famous poem by Robert Frost, an American poet. Robert Frost is one of the most popular poets in America in the 20th century. He devoted himself to poetry creation all his life, creating and publishing 65,438+00 poems.
Robert Frost (1874- 1963) was born in a teacher's family in San Francisco and spent his childhood in the western United States. After graduating from high school, he studied at Harvard University for two years and then dropped out. Before and after this, he worked as a textile worker, a teacher, ran a farm and traveled a lot. At the same time, he began to write poems, but his poems did not attract attention in America at first.
19 12 years first frost was 38 years old. This year, he made an important choice: give up his teaching career in normal schools, give up his life that might have been more dull and stable, and choose poetry. He said to himself, "write poetry, and be poor if you are poor."
After discussion, the couple decided to change places and find an environment with a lower living standard but more conducive to writing poems. So they sold the farm they inherited from their grandfather, took a little savings from several years of teaching, crossed the ocean to England, and found a new home in a wooden house in a village not far from London. Soon after, his first book of poetry, The Will of Children, was published, and soon won the praise of the poet for its unique simplicity, frankness and sincerity. Pound, a famous American poet, has long recommended it as the best collection of poems in America.
Frost returned to America and ran a farm in New Hampshire. Since then, his poems have become more and more famous. He won the Pulitzer Prize four times in 1924, 193 1, 1937 and 1943 respectively, and worked as a teacher, resident poet and poetry consultant in many famous universities. In his later years, he was an unofficial poet laureate in the United States. Frost's poems often begin with describing the natural scenery or customs of New England, and gradually enter the field of philosophy. He is called "the poet of New England". This is related to the description of the natural scenery or customs of New England in his poems. Rock pastures in the north of Boston, colonial buildings, intriguing stone fences, and the rough feelings of the residents there and the hardships of farming life have all become inexhaustible materials for the poet's works. His poems give a panoramic view of the face of new England and the characteristics of local people. It can be said that Frost wrote about all aspects of rural life in New England.
However, Frost did not indulge in depicting beautiful mountains and rivers and beautiful scenery. Although his poems keep some traditional forms and rhythms, the atmosphere is very light, but Frost is aware of the complexity of life. He expressed a symbolic meaning through nature, not an idyllic homesickness. In his works, life is sad and happy, beautiful and ugly, and there is unity in chaos. He is good at explaining profound philosophy in simple terms through real phenomena and the description of scenery in New England. He tried to find the bright color, excitement and innocence that modern America had lost in New England, and made it the standard for testing and evaluating modern civilized cities. One of Frost's outstanding contributions is here.
Frost is often called a "transitional poet", which means that he is in a period of alternation between traditional poetry and modernist poetry. One of the reasons why Frost's poems are very popular is that his poetry style is unpretentious and can be understood by people without much school education. While many poets are keen on poetry experiments, he insists on describing his daily events in everyday language, from which he can find unique wisdom and philosophy. The description is exquisite and thought-provoking, which can make people often read and be new.
The Road Not Taken is a famous poem by Frost, written on 19 15, which was originally included in his third collection of poems, Mountains (19 16). In this poem, he combines his thoughts and feelings with symbolic images and expounds his attitude towards life, society and the universe. One of the greatest characteristics of Frost's poetic style is unpretentious and meaningful, which contains profound thoughts and philosophies in plain content and simple poems. This poem is a model in this respect. Its language is simple and natural, but its conception is very clever.
The whole poem consists of four sections, which can be divided into two layers. Section 1-2 is the first floor: section 1 explains that there are two roads in the forest, one disappears into the endless jungle, and the poet is at a fork in the road and faces a choice; In the second section, the poet described that he chose another road, which was "barren and lonely", but he thought it was "more attractive and beautiful".
We can see the double contradiction of "I" here. The first contradiction is that we can't set foot on two roads at the same time. In this contradiction, the poet described "I" standing at a fork in the road, feeling sorry that he could not set foot on two roads at the same time-one road was smooth and unobstructed, with no end in sight; The other road is lonely and desolate, full of temptation to explore. The second contradiction is the question of which road to choose after knowing that you can't set foot on two roads at the same time. After a complicated psychological process, "I" finally chose the inaccessible road, hoping to leave another road for the next day, but this is obviously a comfort for the author after making a choice, because "I know the road is long and Xiu Yuan is awkward, and I am afraid I can't go back." However, it is not a hasty decision for the poet to choose the lonely road. Although he knew that the other road might be smooth and unimpeded, he chose the lonely and desolate road.
If we contact the poet's choice between writing poetry and teaching in normal schools, we may be able to understand this poem more deeply. If teaching in a normal school is a smooth road to life, then the road to writing poetry can be said to be full of loneliness and desolation. But in these two lives, the poet finally chose the latter, although he sometimes wondered what it would be like to take the former road when he suddenly looked back. This is also human nature, and it is also the confusion we will encounter at the fork in life.
In the third section, the poet confessed that although "I" also yearned for another road, I would rather take a road that others seldom take. This shows that "I" don't want to follow the crowd and are determined to take the road of my own choice. However, we can also see that there are some hesitations and contradictions here, but this is not to worry that your choice is a mistake, but to regret that you can only choose one road. He realized that the choice made him lose another possibility, where the scenery might be charming and there was another kind of fun he didn't know. In the fourth quarter, "I" think of the future and may look back on the past, and may realize that the choice of road at this time determines the fate of my life. Here, the poet pushed the thought of the whole poem to a climax. He combined two paths in the "yellow forest" with possible different life paths, making us realize that this accidental choice may affect a person's life, and the poem came to an abrupt end here, leaving room for readers to imagine and think.
The title of the poem is The Road Without Choice. On the realistic level, the poet describes people's choices of different roads in a forest, but it is not difficult to see that the fork in the road described in the poem is a symbol of the fork in the road in life. In this poem, the poet not only wrote about his choice between different roads, but more importantly, when he chose one road, he was full of feelings and reverie about the other road. Here, the poet emphasizes the contingency and mystery of life, reminding us that life has infinite possibilities. When we walk on one road, there will be a fork in the road, which may take us to another road, but when we are faced with choices, different choices may bring us different fates. This may be a casual choice, and when we suddenly look back in the future, we may know how deeply it has affected our lives.
The poet focuses on the choice itself, but from the specific description, we first see two roads in the yellow forest, but the poet's brushwork gives the description of this simple scene a deeper meaning. Here, the use of symbolism plays an important role, which enriches the concise description and leaves readers with room for imagination. Every reader can find his own life experience in this poem, which is touched and causes deep thought.
"Road" is the most important image in this poem, which is not only a concrete road, but also a symbolic meaning of the road of life. Many poets and writers at all times and all over the world have used the double meaning of road. For example, there is a sentence in Qu Yuan's poem, "The road is long, Xiu Yuan is Xi, Xiu Yuan is Xi, and I will go up and down to seek"; Lu Xun also said, "In fact, there is no road on the ground. If there are more people walking, it will become a road." They all gave different meanings to "road" and expressed different views and attitudes towards life. In this poem, the poet shows us the infinite possibilities of life and the regret that there is only one way through his persistence and daydreaming about the road without choice. Realizing this may open another possibility for us.
Analysis of Different Interpretations of Robert Frost
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By Yone' E. Amuka
Unselected road
Two roads diverged in the yellow forest,
I'm sorry I can't go both.
As a traveler, I stood for a long time.
Look down as much as I can.
It bends in the bushes,
And took the other one, and to be fair,
Maybe there's a better way to put it,
Because it is covered with grass and needs to be put on,
Nevertheless, after passing there,
Dressed the same,
That morning, both of them were lying down.
There are no black footprints in the leaves.
Oh, I saved the first one for the next day!
However, knowing how the road leads to the road
I doubt whether I will come back.
I will tell it with a sigh.
Somewhere after year:
Two roads diverged in the Woods, and I-
I chose a less traveled road,
This makes everything different.
Robert Frost
Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken makes literature important. Boston, Massachusetts: Bedford/St. Martin, 2000. p 106)
Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken depicts the image of a lonely traveler. He came to a fork in the road and had to decide which road to take. This widely collected work has become the subject of numerous debates. One of the most popular arguments comes from the title of this poem. The "road not chosen" is usually interpreted as an advertisement of individuality, but this definition depends on whether there is an road not chosen in Frost's poems. Many scholars believe that Frost's description of the differences between the two roads is too contradictory, so he questioned the existence of the inaccessible road. Subtract a lonely road from the "road not chosen" and get an equation with infinite explanations. However, these explanations seem as diverse and novel as the interpreters themselves.
Patrick Bassett is a writer of the literary magazine The Interpreter. He believes in the spiritual essence of this poem and thinks that it represents the spiritual choice of the soul. Mike Bella, the author of the online magazine The Best Years, believes that The Road Not Taken is Robert Frost's warning to delay and postpone his dreams. R.F. Fleissner, a professor at Central State University, thinks that this poem has no clear explanation because it is based on the imitation of a friend of Robert Frost. Mordecai Marcus, a literary critic, thinks that this poem only satirizes the dilemma of having to make a choice. Editors of Thinkquest.org, an online learning group, pay attention to the thought-provoking verse in this poem and think that it urges readers not to open up new paths, but to be proud of the path they have chosen. Luis ahn Temer, the author of The Road Not Taken, points out that the road not taken can't really be related to choice, because fate always leads one to the necessary path.
Patrick F. Bassett, The Road Not Taken by Frost. Commentators 39 and 3 (198 1 spring): P.4 1-43.
Patrick Bassett's explanation is the strangest of all. Bassett doesn't believe in physical speakers or even physical forks. Bassett thinks that both the speaker and the fork in the road are spiritual, but because Bassett thinks that both roads are worn out, he thinks that the human soul has no real road. Bassett believes that the existence of two completely different roads means that all life choices are clear and there is no gray; Only blacks and whites. When we carefully examine Bassett's explanation, it seems to be similar to Louis Antmeyer's understanding of this poem. Untermeyer said that this choice was always decided by his fate. Bassett suggested that the soul will go where it wants to go, and this random journey of the soul is the personality that most people perceive.