I love this poem and poet. Back when I was a teen I met someone who actually met Robert Frost. I failed English every year without fail. Then came literature. I had to learn who was a realist, surrealist, and so on. I was taught R.F. was an impressionist. The guy which was an English professor that I met explained that R.F. was a realist. He had a chance to talk to R.F. and tell him how his poems had inspired him. R.F. told him that there were 2 roads to the farm he lived on. He would pick berries from the roads less travelled because not as many were crushed by travellers. The stone walls poem. When they plowed the fields they would at times come across stones that they would bring to their property wall. The neighbors did the same. It gave them a chance to talk. R.F. explained to the professor (who was just a student at the time) that poetry is like a painting. Each person will see something different even from the artist who created it. Each person will take with them an insight to themselves. I love Robert Frost.

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

That was awesome, amazing story.

@happybrokefatuglymama4

4 жыл бұрын

@@illneas Thank you. It really opened my eyes to literature and gave me a thirst to learn more than what they wrote but also the lives they lived. Edgar Allen Poe wasn't famous until after he died. William Shakespeare was an extremely vulgar man in his time. Yet today both are taught in schools. 😊

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

I'm happy to see that. I also read about their life stories sometimes.

@aanishadey4873

4 жыл бұрын

Poetry and Painting both are alike. We take it from our experiences.

@mysticalpoetry767

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this experience & story with us. It brings a lot of life to what poetry is for.

Nice work. Reminds me of a quote from Kierkegaard: "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards"

@farrah9748

7 ай бұрын

🌸 you won't understand anything until you reach the end 🌸

I wish everyone here will find the road which will lead them to prosperity and peace.

@johnsrome8459

4 жыл бұрын

What s beautiful thing to say. Thank you, kind heart. I wish you the best of everything too.

@johnsrome8459

4 жыл бұрын

@@prophet71124 That's wonderful, Steve. Did you write it?

@johnsrome8459

4 жыл бұрын

@@prophet71124 Not being a literary scholar of any sort, just an ordinary Joe, I would be loathe to opine any definitive reason but one can just tell when someone has mastered their craft. Let's not wait for posthumous publications, Steve. You have 12,000 reasons to let others share your talent now! (Personally, I am more inclined to Buddhist philosophy than Christian theology but that makes no difference to me, anyway. We are all searching for peace in the ineffable). At the very least, resubmit your poem in the main thread, where it will be noticed more, please. It was a delight to read & I wish you the very best, Sir. Thank you for sharing. Good health & blessings.

@InfiniteMind9

3 жыл бұрын

Dont wish. Believe

@jasondaniels640

3 жыл бұрын

Aye. Right back at ya man.

" Wherever the crowd goes, run the other direction, they are always wrong. " --Charles Bukowski Have read this poem countless times and yet I keep seeing something new. It's been a delight brother to see you grow.... You have done justice to the poem. That's all that needs to be said.

@AllTrickss

4 жыл бұрын

But what if they are right once in a while?

@shobikabai6879

4 жыл бұрын

Hy beati..., I'm glad tht I found a person who enjoys Charles Bukowski's writings... I insist u to go thru The genius of crowd by Charles Bukowski..hope u ll not regret abt tht

@ompalsingh8053

4 жыл бұрын

Bukowski was a drunkard ,I guess

@shobikabai6879

4 жыл бұрын

@@ompalsingh8053 tht's y, he s a masterpiece 😅😅

@roger_isaksson

3 жыл бұрын

@@AllTrickss doubt never leaves the journeyman traveling down the path of discovery

“I’m second guessing my every choice and romanticising the outcome of the option I didn’t choose” its mind boggling that you aren’t a poet yourself because I haven’t connected to a phase so much in my life, truly beautiful

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad that someone connected with it. Thank you.

@crystalcara02

4 жыл бұрын

Very true 👏🏽

@risingstartc

2 жыл бұрын

😊

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars - on stars where no human race is, I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places... ( Desert Places, Robert Frost )

@austin9621

4 жыл бұрын

Such an amazing and terrifying poem!

@namesnotimportant5798

4 жыл бұрын

Mr. Frost was exceptional. His poem, "The Star-Splitter," was my first glimpse. I remember reading it on a poetry website thinking that nobody I've read on here writes like that. Then, I got to its end, and that's when I learned the author's name was Robert Frost. Been a fan since. ✌

@MayurKoitiya

4 жыл бұрын

@@namesnotimportant5798 glad to hear :)

This couldn't have been posted on a more appropriate moment. Just enter a new road completely different from what I was walking for the past 2 years. Thank you.

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

I hope everything turns out fine.

@curateddaisies4128

4 жыл бұрын

I think I'm about to do that too, 2 years and a bit for me.

@priyanka4380

4 жыл бұрын

I'm at the crossroads right now but I've made my decision to enter a complete new road after 2 and a half years of investing my time on a decision not made by me.

So bad this platform does not have an applause option cause you deserve it!

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

You are too kind. Thank you.

@risingstartc

2 жыл бұрын

😀😊

I've a scrap book which where I've written only 3 poems, that I really live by. This is one of them. The last line hits me so hard, everytime in my life when I've to make. A hard-decision, I think of this poem. "..and that had made all the difference" (Other 2 of my fav poems are: 'Go all the way' by Charles Bukowski and 'if' by Rudyard Kipling)

I'm probably going to watch this many times and many times hence. And that will make all the difference.

@InfiniteMind9

3 жыл бұрын

Cool

@risingstartc

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣😅

This poem was read at my brothers funeral. The lines... "I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence" stuck with me. That was ten years ago and still they echo. Great channel, excellent for stirring the emotions. Thank you

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank for watching my work Minnie, I hope you are having a great day.

@minnierose4398

4 жыл бұрын

@@illneas thank you! ...and if ever you felt inspired I would love to see how your creative spirit produced "My Law" by Tieme Ramapiri. With best wishes 😊

@iffyikr9629

4 жыл бұрын

Minnie Rose 🌹

@minnierose4398

4 жыл бұрын

@@iffyikr9629 Thank you 😊

@crystalcara02

4 жыл бұрын

@@minnierose4398 It's beautiful that you guys chose to read that at his homegoing. Sorry for the loss of your brother and I hope you & your family are doing well. ❤️

I love the positive vibes of this poem or may be that's how I perceive it... To commit a mistake is actually one step towards your growth. That is how you groom yourself, you learn what is in for you or not.

I still remember when I was taught this poem in school in grade 9 in India. Out of hundreds of poems and texts I have studied, this is the only one which I remember perfectly. This poem touched my heart at that time too and these feelings are back now. Thank you Robert Frost Sir!

@sk-ed5tp

3 жыл бұрын

same here❤️

@risingstartc

2 жыл бұрын

😁

I think some people need to change their path every once in a while. It makes contrasts in life and therefore a lust for it. Thank u for the content. Some shots remind me of the movie Arrival

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

This is accurate, I haven't noticed it. I love that movie.

I hate you for this. I've been having a really tough couple of days...but I try to stay happy and positive (I'm pre-med and everyone in school is an anxiety riddled mess so I try to cheer everyone up and calm people down) but I realized a couple weeks ago that college is just like high school. Not in the sense of academics or anything if anything academics is the only thing keeping me sane but people. I have this poem in a box when I was in high school that I keep under my bed and I haven't thought about it for a year. This poem hits deep and makes me feel like I have someone and I clicked on this video to have some noise in the background while I studied and as soon as I heard "yellow wood" I lost it. This poem make me tear up everytime. If I can't even fit in at place that is literally designed for people that think like myself than how will I ever have anyone on my road. How he apologizes for being himself how he is basically saying that he wishes he could be a person "traveler" that they can like and love. How he doubts himself day by day wondering if the path he choice was a path worth the pain. He is a traveler left with his doubts and a road with no one on it. Only thing keeping him going in the end was himself.

Very favorite Robert Frost poem this is.. and thank you so much for this! Video is beautiful and brings the poem to life.. and the gentle poignant voice brings out every nuance.. Unsure why the last stanza causes me to cry.. have pondered why .. Believe these words speak to each of us in a special way.. pain comes to us all .. and the realization of this indomitable unavoidable reality may be what stimulates tears.. Thank you for your wonderful channel .. most of all for your original poems that soothe and satiate the soul..🌹 Jen999💙

Love this channel. What is really awesome to see is the comments. This contents brings together the coolest people.

This poem and a few others are glued on my headboard. Every morning "The road not taken" brings simplicity in a life I continue. 😊 Once again Illneas you bring comfort in my feeds. 🙏💛

Literature forever ❤

I love love love Robert Frost, so seeing this being uploaded is great! This is also one of my favorites of his.

There is a bench in a nearby graveyard with an excerpt from this poem. I would go there to sit and think. One day, I decided to look up the man whose grave I had wandered to for solitude. I found he was an English teaching major, just like me. We attended the same college. It was very affirming to find that.

I discovered your channel today, and you have amazing content! The music you use are always so fitting 🖤

just want to say thank you that's it just thank you because I mean it with my heart

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

^^ you are so sweet, thank you for being here.

Illneas, you are one the spot. you have managed to create this awesome melancholic poetry club, perhaps sometimes less melancholic more nostalgic.

Beautiful work. This poem has long enchanted me especially. It says clearly that both roads "both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black"; thus neither had been taken before, and yet the narrator, looking back with a sigh, tells himself & others that he took the path less traveled, thus adding a nobility that wasn't really there. And yet, maybe it was. It's all very muddled and confusing, like our human lives. Thank you for bringing this poem to life.

Your videos are the best. Please, never stop.

A splendid poem,it's a honor to have this poem in our English NCERT textbooks....

I love this poem. Thanks for the lovely video. As for roads, I think there are no right or wrong, better or worse. There are choices we have to make without knowing what await for us ahead. Just accept and carry on. Life has no script.

I love your work, your effort, Illneas, please continue! 💕💕💕💕💕💕

illneas, thank you for another beautiful glimpse into your personal world. Another diamond in the mud to cherish. (Loving the sound design stingers, btw.) I sympathize with the frustrating internal dialogue you describe in your written intro. I suspect everybody in this beautiful little community feels the weight of that doubt intensely too - that's why we are all here (?). Looking for something more than mundane existence has to offer. I hope you all find it, my friends, with the resilience to hold on once you do. To me, it's the NOT choosing that will eat you up. Thank you again, illneas. Forever grateful ❤

You've been gifted this amazing talent clubbing the most inspiring poem with your talent. I'm so proud of what you're doing! Please do more of this.

thanks.... Robert Frost is my favourite too ♥️ and this poem is just love.. i always quote it.. thanks.. this was refreshing to watch

What a lovely video!. A poetry, narrator and photographs... all beauties!!. 🥰❤

What are the odds. I literally went on a walk this morning and memorized this one. Great video illneas!

Man! Thank you for this😢❤️

It was beautiful, full of sadness and melancholy... I saw me in there, fully projected... Thkns again 💕

That was really relaxing, ams kind of melancholy feel. Perhaps it was the narrator or the music behind, but together they were very lulling.

Oh how much I love David J. Bauman's voice ! Everything is so beautiful in the video , also you got gorgeous twinkling eyes. Love ♥️

Such a piece of art, i just love ur channel

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

^^

I love this! Your narration, photos and music

I have to tell you that really really admire your video posts. They are all very beautiful and moving. I really enjoy the Charles Bukowski ones... Keep up the good work.

Robert Frost was never saying one way was better than the other because it wasn’t taken. He was saying both were worn about the same, and basically saying it didn’t matter which one was done with. Hope this sends you off well. Take care!

@mayankpant5376

4 жыл бұрын

One road was grassy, other road was trodden. Yeah he dint say about which road is better

@megha9789

4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't matter which was better... After ages..he'll know that it made all the difference.. you can take it either way.. and that's the beauty of this poem! You can read the lyrics once again...and can read it sarcastically.. we don't know the vision of the poet!

That golden voice. So precious.

i just live to have a good story,or to find one. life that isn’t troublesome wouldn’t have the twists that make it enjoyable. when all of us are moving to the same destination,why then care about the end rather than the story itself. great cinematography btw

This is one of those poems that sparked my interest in English poetry. One of my favorites.

Absolutely breathtaking and such a stunning representation!

The beauty of poetry,it touchs our hearts deep down our souls and reflects on our lifes

We had this poem in our literature course nd I loved it..can't wait to see how you'll narrate it ❤

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

I don't narrate the poems, I'm producing the video. The narrator is in the video description, in this one, it's Tom O'Bedlam

Thank you brother listening to this is like meditating on hope of bright future .

This is one of my very favorite poems. I read this last year. This poem can be easily mis judged, we might think that the poet chose the 'road not taken' and that has made all the difference. But as we go through the poem it's clearly stated that both the roads were worn equally. The sigh in the end is how we tell our stories in the end. However the truth is we would have said the same even if it were the 2nd road.

love all your videos, love this one too. This poem is my favourite. the first time I know this poem was when I had Literature class and we were talking about this. Our lecturer asked us to find out the meaning of this poem. And of course, we had so many thought about it and the way we conveyed to our friends. we have our way to find who we truly are every choices or path we choose will lead us to what will we become

This man, Robert Frost, is love.

Just found out about you and reaallllly loved your pieces. They really potrays your love and dedication towards the poems and the poets.

@illneas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you that means a lot to me ^^

Oh my god I totally love this video. The poem touched in so many different ways. Please do upolad something like this with Robert Browing's poem "Porphyria's Lover".

Can't tell how excited I am for this ♥️♥️

You are a person of unique taste and the quality of the output of the combination of - The poem The Music The Video Gives more satisfaction than more than a decent movie. You are Man. Kudos to you Bro. You are just amazing.

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, that's really nice of you.

I love you illneas!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ This is a masterpiece

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

One traveler can't travel two roads at a time ---this is the philosophy of human life. How very true 👍 Robert Frost is one of my most favorite poets.

Sooo... I'm watching this late at night (after binging most of this channel over the last couple of days - amazing channel btw) and I think this has just changed my mind about my future... I've been at a crossroads for some time and was pretty much set on one option. But hearing this.. yeah, hearing this makes me want to go the other way. Thank you for making these.

@illneas

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Love your channel....And, Robert Frost.

A lot of feelings in the shots & they really matched the poem too.

Hi Illneas/fellow KZreadrs, Loved the reading, loved the cinematography, love that you credit others, include camera details, music info, share yourself and love the poem. Well done! Additionally love the positive comments from as many as the eye can see and references to other works/quotes (many more moments of reading right there!) In all honesty I only read this poem for the FIRST time on the 14/02/2020 on another social media site. The very same day, earlier, I put myself out there and I spoke in front of a number of parents at my son's school (the idea was to persuade more parents to attend school events and talk about/be aware re mental health with their child/children). I may not have been so eloquent, but I spoke from within. One of the 'bravest' things I've ever done, my message wasn't received well by all, but my intent came from a good place! On the back of that 'vulnerability', I came home, did my usual scan of the internet and came across two posts, one by Brene Brown (about daring to lead) and the other Robert Frost's (The Road Not Taken) and how it had been a favourite of JFK's. From one 'tormented' fellow to another I share the following poem I wrote (Dare to Read), not to cast any shadow on your post, but as I felt compelled to. I don't comment on many KZread videos, only if/when I'm blown away, inspired or humbled. Sending much love, keep inspiring, blowing away and staying humble my friend: Dare to read A simple message, but to send, My intention was not TWO offend. Incredibly brave or completely stupid? A very, vulnerable, valentine, not just anybody's Cupid. I spoke from heart and from gut, Perhaps my words so eloquently put?! Just see the effort teachers and schools put in, So not to work together would be a sin. I'm JUST a parent, the new kid on the block, My purpose not to guilt or shock. As to Robert Frost and The Road Not Taken, If one person heeds, then, I'm not forsaken. By Geoff Rush

Thanks for this man! Just found your channel and I am definitely staying 😊

I love this poem. .. This one and "if" by Rudyard Kipling are my favorite poems

Your videos are very good. Thank you.

One of my favourite poems & poet

I love your work you're so talented

I read it in my school and till now it creates the same feeling that it did some 10 years ago, one of the best poem that echoes the condition of everyone who can relate with it

The music put a whole different feel in this.

@lemon-vy3mj

3 жыл бұрын

Girl I know it did 😏

I love sooo much your channel, keep going!💞❤️

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

^^

very nice. you bring poetry closer to me.

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad for that. Thank you for watching.

Thank you

You my friend, are the best thing that ever happened on KZread👍

Robert Frost wrote this for his poet friend Edward Thomas. Thomas would always have difficulty making a decision which path to take when he and Frost went on walks, so he made this poem to make fun if him a bit. After all, the roads they took had worn "... about the same."

Having watched most of your creations I can't resist noting some critical observations- the pastoral aura pervading the poem was disturbed by the presence of the automobile- the machine. Plus, it could have a black and white screen to start with that would gradually take in more and more colors.

JUST EPIC THANK YOU SO MUCH SHANNON FROM MICHIGAN 💜

I always read your description section. It makes it more personal and real. And yes, I can relate to what you mentioned. I do the same. The other option always appears to be worth it or maybe not, but definitely tempting. But i guess, our intuition always has the answer and it has always made its choice. Love your content. ❤️ P.S.: the kid with the camera is pretty :)

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for reading my thoughts and for your compliments. I wish you the best, have a nice day.

divine creator ✨ 🙏 put me on the less traveled road, so grateful 🙏

And that has made all the difference that line touches heart

I just stumbled upon your channel... It's just beautiful. I love literature and poetry and your videos make me love them even more. Thank you so much for this.

@illneas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching my work.

@Sh67817

4 жыл бұрын

The pleasure is mine 😊

Just as you say brother I'm sure every living person has faced such choices big or small. And it's up to us with our meagre knowledge and understanding to make the decision.

The music sounds like Davy Jones theme music in pirates of the Carribean

Beautiful a Path, a Road, choice side by side

Amazing Video and the poem offcourse

This is my favorite poem of all time.

Hit it out of the park again!

beautiful as it is so true, Thank you ... I travelled to the Yukon, in northern Canada in my youth. The goal was to stay 2 years and leave with a pile of money. Forty five years have now passed, I still live here (but for an occasional winter escape), And as years rolled I did ok, and I found much more than a pile of money. There is an unofficial anthem song of the Yukon called "Land of Gold" find it for the love of choosing a thousand miles of dusty road. Jim V

Thank you❤

This poem is love....

Just after posting my thoughts.. came this. Thanks 🙏 As for my thoughts , rather unedited but as it might often be the case when purging., It's a long one..☺️ A world full of easy answers is a world limited to easy questions. Conversely, the big questions can lead to big discoveries or have us wrestling with yet another paradox. There was a recent TED talk where the host asked the audience for a show of hands for anyone whose had a gut feeling. All hands went up. The question was then posed - How many of you, who having listened to it, were glad that you did? Again all hands went up? How many of you regretted listening to your gut instinct on any occasion? Not a single hand went up. Perhaps it seems rhetorical question to be asking, given what might appear obvious, assuming of course that you might easily imagine yourself there, answering those very questions, however, what was surprising to me was the rubber necking that occurred in the room. Gut feelings - Gut instincts - yes ! Others have them too! Where do you begin to speak of these? Aside from anecdotal reference, it’s most likely you don’t. It’s the stuff best left for presenters at TED, if only because our instincts are uniquely our own. These are shaped and honed in our own life school settings. It may start with fight, flight or freeze but may soon develop beyond the immediacy in front of us into something of much more long range potential. We may be at a tipping point very soon with respect to the subject of you and the subject of me. Atheists, even the soft shoe varieties like Sam Harris would have us entertaining the idea that free will is illusory. Visionaries like Elon Musk, would have us entertaining the idea of transhumanism as our only hope to keep us safe from the inevitable realizations of artificial intelligence. He makes the case first for the stick and then with the carrot. There would be big advantages to have the quantum processing powers behind our eye lids, interconnected to our very thoughts. This is a world with interconnected technologies of every type by this point. It is assumed that any manufactured product during this time period must meet a minimum of acceptable standards. Interconnectivity, even at its conceptual minimum, could not have you opt out of the basic package. It’s inconceivable that you could know when it’s safe to cross the street on foot at this point. And why would want to carry that risk? You might cause an accident for someone else. That’s a question of resources. When it’s a question of resources, it’s often an untenable question. After all, the value of the many outweighs the value of the few. So then, free will. If it doesn’t exist, then by all means, give it away freely. If my paradox, is your paradox? Then may we live with it for as long as we live and for as long as we can.

I'm not really familiar with Robert Frost. But it's a nice poem to hear and watch anyway. For some reason, the moment I hear the music, I feel like, "This! This!" and I think I refer to how the music, once again, fits the scenery and the poem. "I doubted if I ever come back" line comes up with a scene of dried, cracked land. And you know, when you read poem and you feel the 'punch' out of it? That's when I feel the punch. Also, since I'm not English native, sometimes I really rely on the screen text. I don't know if it's just my connection, or are the texts coming bit later than the poem? It can be synchronized better. I hope this doesn't offend, I'm sincerely loving this and all of your videos. Thank you for sharing them with us 💙

my fave poem of all time

this was the poem i had in my textbook in school and i used to read it a lot 🥺

I loved this poem as a kid still do

Hey bro, this was in my recommended. I am thankful to YT. :P And please do a video on MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP

♥️ fave poem since grade school!

All time favourite poem ❤️❤️

Love this poem ❤️

I love this channel ❤

This poem is in my school textbook. I love it