Beim Abendessen heute ergab sich ein interessanter Zufall. Mein Vater sprach ueber Robert Frost, einen von mir sehr geliebten Dichter (neben dem großartigen E.E. Cummings natuerlich),und davon dass er aus New York zwei Gedichte mitgebracht haette, die ihm besonders gefallen haette. Ich erzaehlte daraufhin von meinen zwei Lieblingsgedichten von Frost
und siehe da, es waren die gleichen. Zufall? Schon interessant... da streitet man sich so viel und hat doch so viele Gemeinsamkeiten.


Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

The road 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.

Die letzte Strophe ist mir am wichtigsten.



Frohes Neues Jahr.