Who wrote the poem "The Road Not Taken"?

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the first paragraph

Two roads diverge 1? In a yellow forest,

I'm sorry I can't go both,

As a traveler, I have been standing for a long time.

Look down as much as I can,

Where it bends? In the bushes.

the second part

And took the other one, and to be fair,

Maybe there's a better way to put it,

Because it's covered with grass? And want to wear;

However, as for passing through there,

Have you ever had a job? They are really similar.

the third part

That morning, both of them were lying down.

There are no footprints in the leaves.

Oh, I saved the first one for the next day!

But knowing how the road leads to the road,

I doubt whether I will come back.

Section iv

I will tell this story with a sigh,

Somewhere after year:

Two roads diverged in the Woods, and I-

I chose the less traveled one,

This makes everything different. ?

Translation:

the first paragraph

There are two roads in the yellow forest.

Unfortunately, I can't choose both at the same time.

I stood for a long time during the journey.

Watch one of them.

Until it winds its way into the distant Woods.

the second part

I naturally chose another one,

Maybe more attractive.

Because it is full of thorns and needs to be explored;

However, such a brush-off

Didn't cause much change.

the third part

Early that morning, the two paths lay quietly together.

Among the leaves that no one has stepped on

Oh, I left another way for tomorrow!

Knowing that roads are connected with roads,

I don't know if I should turn back.

Section iv

I will sigh gently and describe all this.

Many, many years later:

There are two roads in the Woods, and I-

I chose the one with fewer pedestrians.

It changed my life.

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Creation background

The Road Not Taken was inspired by Robert Frost's well-meaning jokes about what his best friend Edward Thomas often did in England. Frost often walks in the country with Thomas: Thomas has been trying to choose a road that allows him to show some strange plants or scenery to his American friends.

However, after every walk, Thomas regrets his choice and laments what he could have shown Frost if they had chosen a "better" direction. Many times, when this happens, New Englanders will laugh at his Welsh-English friends' useless regrets.

Frost learned something that might happen from this sigh. This kind of behavior is a way that Frost never chose, and it is also a way that he learned to avoid. Therefore, shortly after he returned to the United States as a successful newly discovered poet, when he remembered this incident, Frost pretended to be Edward Thomas and wrote The Road Not Taken.

He immediately copied a copy and sent it to Thomas without making any comments, but he hoped that his friends would notice that, ironically, the poem was based on the frostless phrase "I will tell this with a sigh". In fact, Frost's expectations failed. Thomas didn't understand the well-meaning joke because the irony was handled skillfully and subtly.

19 15, after The Road Not Taken was published, Frost hoped that his American readers could appreciate the central meaning of this poem. But he was disappointed again. Then, when he recited The Road Not Taken in Public, he began to remind them.

Once, he talked about a letter written to him by a girl from a grammar school, which asked him a question: "Why are you sighing?" He said that this letter and this question made him decide: no more hints. On another occasion, after publicly reciting The Road Not Taken, he gave a more direct and obvious warning: "You must be careful with that poem; This is a tricky poem, very tricky. "

He never admits that he handled himself and his satire too subtly in that poem, but these situations are worth remembering as an instruction, that is, in a poem or a letter, Frost often likes to pretend that he has no position as much as possible, just for ridicule-sometimes gentle, sometimes sharp.