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The Road Less Travelled
The Road Less Travelled
The Road Less Travelled : Phrases
Meaning:
The unconventional or uninvestigated option. The notion is near to what is nowadays called 'alternative'.
Example:
Origin:
From Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken, 1920:
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.
Note spellings - In the UK: travelled; in the USA: - traveled.
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