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: a track specially constructed for a particular use
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a : course, route
b : a way of life, conduct, or thought …
I appreciate this poem by Robert Frost Posted at the website: Poetry Foundation
The Road Not Taken
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.
This poem influenced me while I was young. I wanted to choose my way carefully.
What poem, author, novel or writing influenced you and in what way?
I always have to read that poem when I get the opportunity. Is that a path for excess water?
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Yes, it is for excess water, but I didn’t know this when I published my post. I showed my husband the photo a few hours later and asked him why so many places had a stone path in their landscaping. He told me that the path is made of river rock and the purpose for it is water drainage. Before the heavy rain that fell, I would have thought, “What water?” Thank you for your insightful comment.
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