未选择的路
罗伯特·弗罗斯特
(ROBERT FROST)
未选择的路
The Road Not Taken
罗伯特·弗罗斯特(1874一1963)是在马萨诸塞州劳伦斯上的中学,也在达特第斯学院和哈佛大学读过一段时间.获得诗名之前,弗罗斯特时而务农,时而到中学教希腊语和拉丁语.他的第一部诗集出版于1913年.1916年后,他一直在著名学府任职,通常的身份是“住校诗人”.弗罗斯特的诗歌备受喜爱,原因之一是未受过多少学校教育的人都看得懂.当许多诗人热衷于搞诗歌试验时,他却坚持使用日常语言,描写自己观察入微的日常事件.弗罗斯特的许多诗歌反映了他与大自然的贴近.他通过自然来表达一种象征意义,而不是什么田园式的思乡情调.《未选择的路》是弗罗斯特的一首名诗,作于1915年.
黄色的树林里分出两条路,
可惜我不能同时去涉足,
我在那路口久久伫立,
我向着一条路极目望去,
直到它消失在丛林深处.
但我选了另外一条路,
它荒草萋萋,十分幽寂,
显得更诱人,更美丽；
虽然在这条小路上,
很少留下旅人的足迹.
那天清晨落叶满地,
两条路都未经脚印污染.
啊,留下一条路等改日再见!
但我知道路径延绵无尽头,
恐怕我难以再回返.
也许多少年后在某个地方,
我将轻声叹息将往事回顾：
一片树林里分出两条路——
而我选择了人迹更少的一条,
从此决定了我一生的道路.
英文版：
The Road Not Taken
writen by Robert Lee Frost
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.