英美文学作品选读-lecture 9-Frost Sandburg.pptVIP

Introduction The five greatest poets of American modernism (1910-1950): Robert Frost Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams 1. Subject-matter This poem is about a traveler, who walks in the woods in autumn, hesitating for a long time and wondering which road to take since both are pretty. After much mental debate, the traveler picks the road “less traveled by”. Since the two roads are “as just as fair”, and are worn “really about the same”, the poet might be imply that ultimately life would come a full circle and different roads actually make no difference at all. A