未走之路 The Road Not Taken @ 牛仔帽與墨鏡

「未走之路The Road Not Taken」是美國詩人佛羅斯特 (Robert Frost，1874-1963)，最有名的一首詩，他的文字雖然樸實，節奏卻鮮明而意境優美，並且能透過直接的描述，牽引出豐富的意識的聲音，傳達的哲理深沉而餘韻無窮。

佛羅斯特說：「詩應始於歡娛，而終於智慧。」(A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom)，憑著卓越的聲韻技巧和哲理內涵，終使他成為二十世紀最受美國人喜歡的詩人。

這首詩表面上描述旅人在樹林裡遇到岔路而躊躇不決的心情，實際上卻是在告訴我們大家，我們的人生道路是靠自己決定的，有得才有失，有捨才能得。

※未走之路 The Road Not Taken

金色的樹林裡有兩條路岔路
可惜我不能沿著兩條路行走；
我久久地站在那分岔的地方
極目眺望其中一條路的盡頭；
直到它轉彎，消失在樹林深處。

然後我毅然踏上了另一條路，
這條路也許更值得我嚮往，
因為它荒草叢生，人跡罕至；
不過說到其冷清與荒涼，
兩條路幾乎是一模一樣。

那天早晨兩條路都鋪滿落葉，
落葉上都沒有被踩踏的痕跡。
唉，我把第一條路留給未來！
但我知道人世間阡陌縱橫，
我不知未來能否再回到那裡。

我將會一邊嘆息一邊敘說，
在某個地方，在很久很久以後；
曾有兩條小路在樹林中分手，
我選了一條人跡稀少的行走，
結果後來的一切都截然不同。

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 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.