Of Mice and Men
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”
~John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck
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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.
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The American poet Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, CA. He spent his first 40 years mostly unknown, and it wasn’t until after returning to the United States from England—where he had his first two books of poetry published—near the beginning of the first World War, that he was truly recognized by the publishing world as the talented word-smith he was. During his later life he earned four Pulitzer Prizes, and as the unofficial U.S. “poet laureate” he was a special guest at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. He died of surgical complications two years later, at the age of 88.
~The Society of Classical Poets
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Works Cited
Michaud, Craig. "Robert Frost Farm." February 10, 2009, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robertfrostfarm.JPG
"John Steinbeck." June 5, 2015, https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/525/18306511889_1c9606e8ea_b.jpg
"Robert Frost at Various Stages of Life." The Society of Classical Poets. http://classicalpoets.org/five-greatest-poems-by-robert-frost/
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. Penguin Group, 1937.