To Be or Not To Be

While preparing a poetry critique essay for a group of  grade ten students. I came across Robert Frost's poem, The path not taken. It sent me down memory lane of fond memories of school and my high school teacher. I loved  Language and learning poetry. I think to myself how much life has changed. Students now all think,poetry is such a waste of time.

Better yet I am happy for the path I have chosen.How many of us regret  the career or the relationship we chose.This poem is very deep and depicts many lessons in life. It is difference in today's fast pace world in trying to get students to make the connections in all their subject areas. Math is more than just numbers,Science is not just about formulaes,Literature and novel study always,always have many deep life lessons that will remain with you through out life.

Think about the impression imprinted in our minds of  Animal Farm,Lord of the Flies,Shakespeare... Let's keep encouraging our children on which path not to take for in this advance world,there are quite many paths.

Less you forget,I present Robert Frost: The Path 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