THE BLESSING AND VALUE OF SEEKING WISDOM (9)
Scripture: Proverbs 1:1-33
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The Blessing and Value of Seeking Wisdom (9)
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Proverbs 1:1-33
Introduction
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.
Robert Frost's poem, ''The Road Not Taken,'' is likely the most well known American poem in history. One can find references to it not just in literature or journalism, but also throughout pop culture in television shows to car commercials. We all think we know what it is about: the triumph of individualism. In other words, I, I chose the hard path and because I set my mind to it, I have reaped the reward. But this is not at all what the poem is actually about. I mean, were you just to take the last stanza out of context and divorce it from the rest of the poem, then sure it's all about choosing the tough path. But there are three stanzas to precede the last one.
Look back through the poem and you see that the traveler describes the two paths as ''the passing there / Had worn them really about the same,'' and ''equally lay / In leaves.'' In other words, the two roads are actually indistinguishable from each other, meaning there is no road less travelled; they are in reality equally travelled. Press on a little further and it would seem that actually nei ...
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Proverbs 1:1-33
Introduction
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.
Robert Frost's poem, ''The Road Not Taken,'' is likely the most well known American poem in history. One can find references to it not just in literature or journalism, but also throughout pop culture in television shows to car commercials. We all think we know what it is about: the triumph of individualism. In other words, I, I chose the hard path and because I set my mind to it, I have reaped the reward. But this is not at all what the poem is actually about. I mean, were you just to take the last stanza out of context and divorce it from the rest of the poem, then sure it's all about choosing the tough path. But there are three stanzas to precede the last one.
Look back through the poem and you see that the traveler describes the two paths as ''the passing there / Had worn them really about the same,'' and ''equally lay / In leaves.'' In other words, the two roads are actually indistinguishable from each other, meaning there is no road less travelled; they are in reality equally travelled. Press on a little further and it would seem that actually nei ...
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