The Road Not Taken
Am 26. März 1874 wurde der Dichter und vierfache Pulitzer-Preisträger Robert Lee Frost in San Francisco geboren. Sein vielleicht bekanntestes Gedicht ist “The Road Not Taken“. Wer es noch nicht kennt, dem sei es hiermit wärmstens an Herz gelegt.
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 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.Quelle: Wikisource
Vokabeltipps:
to diverge: auseinandergehen
undergrowth: Dickicht, Unterholz
hence: von jetzt an
Auf turmsegler.de kann man zwei Übersetzungen des Gedichts ins Deutsche lesen.





