美國詩人 Robert Frost 〈The Road Not Taken〉，可能是最有名的英文詩之一，但同時也是他最被誤解的一首詩。

在這集節目裡，廖雅慧老師會帶領各位聽眾欣賞這首被詩人自己形容為「very tricky」（非常詭異）的詩，並分享這首詩的創作背景與箇中意涵；而在節目的後半段，則會用〈Fire and Ice〉這首詩來介紹 Robert Frost 這位詩人的多面向，以及為什麼有學者形容這首詩是「但丁《神曲・地獄篇》的最精簡版。」

本集重點：

00:44 〈The Road Not Taken〉

09:33 〈Fire and Ice〉

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〈The Road Not Taken〉 by Robert Frost

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.

〈Fire and Ice〉 by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.