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 THE THREE APPLES T he Khalif Haroun er Reshid summoned his Vizier Jaafer one night and said to him, ‘I have a mind to go down into the city and question the common people of the conduct of the officers charged with its government; and those of whom they complain, we will depose, and those whom they commend, we will advance.’ Quoth Jaafer, ‘I hear and obey.’ So the Khalif and Jaafer and Mesrour went down into the town and walked about the streets and markets till, as they were passing through a certain alley, they came upon an old man walking along at a leisurely pace, with a fishing-net and a basket on his head and a staff in his hand, and heard him repeat the following verses: They tell me I shine, by my wisdom and wit, Midst the rest of my kind, as the moon in the night. “A truce to your idle discourses!” I cry, “What’s knowledge, indeed, unattended by might?” If you offered me, knowledge and wisdom and all, With my inkhorn and papers, in pawn for a mite, To buy one day’s victua...
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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

 The Road Not Taken


    The Road Not Taken is that in this poem the poet Robert Frost tells us the importance of making choices in life. He tries to explain this truth with the help of very common examples in our day to day life. Once the poet had to choose between two roads. He chose the one that was less travelled by. And that, he says, has made all the difference. The sense that the poet says is that the choice that a person chooses in his life is permanently chosen. A person cannot choose his goal again. Therefore it is necessary that a person takes great care to make important decisions in his life. 

Summary

    In the poem, the individual arrives at a critical juncture in his life, arriving at crossroads at last near “a yellow wood.” As per him, the paths are equally well-traversed and yield anonymous outcomes. The individual comforts with a thought about returning, be if his path is unsuitable for him, yet in hindsight, he’s aware of the futility of such thought. Since his current path will bring upon separate paths in itself, disallowing any consequent reversal. The individual concludes on a melancholic note of how different circumstances and outcomes would have been, had it been the “other” path.

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.


    Life is made up of a succession of choices. This famous poem begins at a fork in a wooded path and ushers the reader along one "road" as a means of explaining that we must choose one way or another and not dilly-dally in life.
    No matter which way we go, we cannot foresee where it will take us, nor how the other would have turned out.
    We can do our best to make good decisions, but we'll never truly know how much worse or better an alternative might have been. And so, we mustn't regret the road not taken.

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Read HERE two of Robert Frost poems "Nothing Gold Can Stay" and "Fire and Ice"

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