{"id":157,"date":"2010-03-08T00:41:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T08:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2011-12-14T20:09:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:09:05","slug":"the-road-not-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2010\/03\/08\/the-road-not-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road Not Taken"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dedicated to KT.
\nPhoto: Reinhard Kargl<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

This is a picture I took at the Huntington Library<\/a> last week. At first I was not sure if I liked it. But when I was told that the image evoked impressions from one of my favorite poems, I was sold on it.<\/p>\n

Here is the poem by Robert Frost<\/a>, first published in 1916 in the collection Mountain Inverval<\/a><\/em>. (More information can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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The Road Not Taken<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
\nAnd sorry I could not travel both
\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood
\nAnd looked down one as far as I could
\nTo where it bent in the undergrowth;<\/em><\/p>\n

Then took the other, as just as fair,
\nAnd having perhaps the better claim,
\nBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;
\nThough as for that the passing there
\nHad worn them really about the same,<\/em><\/p>\n

And both that morning equally lay
\nIn leaves no step had trodden black.
\nOh, I kept the first for another day!
\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,
\nI doubted if I should ever come back.<\/em><\/p>\n

I shall be telling this with a sigh
\nSomewhere ages and ages hence:
\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I\u2014
\nI took the one less traveled by,
\nAnd that has made all the difference.
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