罗伯特·弗罗斯特（Robert Frost）的著名诗作"The Road Not Taken"，这首诗是英语诗歌中最具代表性的作品之一，以其对人生选择和后果的隐喻而闻名。
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.
未选择的路
两条小路在金黄的树林中分岔，
遗憾的是我无法同时踏上两条，
作为一个独行者，我久久伫立，
凝望着其中一条，尽力看清
它在灌木丛中转弯的地方。
然后选择了另一条，同样美好，
或许更值得，因为它青草丰茂，
仿佛等待着人们的脚步；
虽然说实话，两条路几乎无异，
走过的人让它们变得一样。
那天清晨，两条路静静躺着，
满地的落叶还未被踩黑。
哦，我把第一条留待改日再去！
却又知道，路连着路，
恐怕再也没有机会回来。
多年以后，我将叹息着说：
在某个树林里，两条路分岔，
而我选择了那条人迹更少的，
从此，生活变得截然不同。
