OK guys, er, gals. Bear with me, this technology thing is throwing me, so we'll see if my entry makes it.
Anyway, I just read that poem "The Road Less Traveled"...and for some crazy reason, it made me think of Bella. I'm not finished with the series yet, just started on the last book. But when I read the first stanza of Frost's poem I was reminded of Alice's words to Bella at the end of the 3rd book when she expressed sympathy to Bella for being forced to choose between two good things. That's a theme in the book, this "impasse" that sort of starts with Edward and Bella's relationship in general and what they want for each other, it's echoed in the fridge magnets that cannot coexist side by side, and noted again with the love triangle in which Bella finds herself. It's pretty sad in the book (so far). However, Frost's poem seems to finish on a note of hope and triumph.
Just my goofy thoughts...
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A favorite poem of mine. I would like to share...KD
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 had made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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 had made all the difference.
Robert Frost
3 comments:
It's funny how the same poem means something different to people. I feel like it means the hardest road is offten the most rewarding. I always ,for some reason, love a challenge, then I wonder what I was thinking??? but the end result is worth the journey....thats my dorky thinking....
i like both takes. i didn't even think about Bella when I read this, but now i see that. no worries, BD ends with hope too. :P
but Bella did kind of take the harder road if you think about it...she gave up a lot...but in the end gained too. :)
I like the book worm pic...that's cute..
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