The Road Not Taken: 2nd of December

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

2nd of December

Today's gift is Wham's classic "Last Christmas". Ever since I first heard this song it has been on my top ten list of Christmas songs. I have also brought this song and video to the classroom today and asked my students to translate the lyrics from English into Newnorwegian. In this way, I hope to make the students repeat Newnorwegian grammar and have a good laugh. When they have all finished I will ask the students to present their results and the class then has to decide on the best translation.

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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.

Robert Frost