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poetry about choices
Posted by: Catherine (---.ok.shawcable.net)
Date: May 26, 2002 07:55PM

hey, i'm wondering if any of you could help me with this project i have at school, i need a poem that's about choices in life, like The road not Yet Taken, and IF, if you can help me please email me, i realloy need to get this done, Thank you

catherine


Re: poetry about choices
Posted by: Pam Adams (---)
Date: May 28, 2002 03:00PM

Maybe this one?

pam

The Choice
by: William Butler Yeats


The intellect of man is forced to choose
perfection of the life, or of the work,
And if it take the second must refuse
A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
When all that story's finished, what's the news?
In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
That old perplexity an empty purse,
Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.


Re: poetry about choices
Posted by: Hugh Clary (---.washington-35rh16rt.dc.dial-access.att.net)
Date: June 11, 2002 01:33PM


Traveling through the dark I found a deer
dead on the edge of the Wilson River road.
It is usually best to roll them into the canyon:
that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead.

By glow of the tail-light I stumbled back of the car
and stood by the heap, a doe, a recent killing;
she had stiffened already, almost cold.
I dragged her off; she was large in the belly.

My fingers touching her side brought me the reason—
her side was warm; her fawn lay there waiting,
alive, still, never to be born.
Beside that mountain road I hesitated.

The car aimed ahead its lowered parking lights;
under the hood purred the steady engine.
I stood in the glare of the warm exhaust turning red;
around our group I could hear the wilderness listen.

I thought hard for us all—my only swerving—,
then pushed her over the edge into the river.
—William Stafford




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