Two roads diverged in the yellow woods, but it was a pity that I couldn't go both ways. What does it mean?

This poem is called "The Road Not Taken" and is a literary work created by the American poet Robert Frost.

The full text is as follows:

"The Road Not Taken"

Section 1

There are two roads in the yellow forest,< /p>

It’s a pity that I can’t choose both at the same time

While on the journey, I stood for a long time

Looking at one of them

Until it Winding into the distant trees.

Verse 2

I chose the other one, of course,

Maybe it is more tempting

Because it is full of thorns, It needs to be developed;

However, such a passing

did not cause much change.

Section 3

That early morning these two paths lay quietly together

among the leaves that no one had stepped on

Oh , I left another road for tomorrow!

Knowing that the road leads to another,

I don’t know if I should turn back.

Section 4

I will sigh softly and describe all this

Many, many years later:

There are two trees in the woods Road, I——

Choose the one with few pedestrians

It changed my life.

Extended information:

"The Road Not Taken" was inspired by something the author Robert Frost often did to his best friend Edward Thomas in England. Good-natured banter.

Frost often walked with Thomas in the countryside: Thomas kept trying to choose a path that would allow him to show some exotic plant or strange scenery to his American friends.

But at the end of each walk, Thomas regrets the choices he made, lamenting the things he could have shown Frost if they had chosen a "better" direction. Many times, while this was happening, the New Englander would laugh at his Welsh-English friends over the useless regrets.

From this sigh of relief at what might have been, Frost learned something. This course of action was a path that Frost never chose, a path that he learned to avoid.

So, shortly after his return to America as a successful, newly discovered poet, when he remembered this incident, Frost pretended to be Edward Thomas and wrote "The Future" The path chosen”.

He immediately made a copy and sent it to Thomas without comment, though he hoped his friend would notice how ironically the poem was based on that non-Frostian phrase. On top of "I shall be telling this with a sigh".

In fact, Frost's expectations were dashed. Thomas did not understand the good-natured joke, for the irony was handled cleverly and subtly.

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