Monday, April 15, 2013

Robert Frost's 10 Favorite Books

I have not read much of Robert Frost , but one poem i still remember from my school days is "The Road Not Taken". I liked this poem very much .

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 marked 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. 
I read in some site about his favorite books , and here is that list:
1. The Odyssey by Homer
2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
3. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
4. The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
5.The Oxford Book of Verse
6. Modern American and British Poetry - Louis Untermeyer
7. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
8. The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
9. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
10. Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Among the above ten books i have read only "Walden" by David Thoreau and some stories of Edgar Allan Poe.I need to read some of the above books.
*Poem taken from poemhunter .

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