Lo que hace la diferencia

Esta entrada es un poco diferente a lo que usualmente publico en este blog. Últimamente me ha dado un no sé qué por leer poesía de todo tipo. Quiero compartir con todos los lectores de este blog, que a esta altura ya serán muy pocos o tal vez nulos, un poema que leí por primera vez cuando tenía 11 ó 12 años. Las imágenes que este poema ha creado en mi imaginación no se pueden borrar a pesar de los años que han pasado. Robert Frost, poeta estadounidense, lo publicó por primera vez en 1920. Con el paso del tiempo esta obra maestra se ha convertido en uno de los poemas más reconocidos mundialmente.


The Road No 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.


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