诗歌《未选择的路》是谁写的?

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.