2009年6月12日 星期五

選擇作什麼研究,其實就像這首詩一樣

有句老話說,擇己所愛,愛己所擇。
也有人說要有坐穿板凳的心理,
不過在publish or perish的狀況下,想等板凳坐穿才有成果出來,
似乎就只有毀滅一途吧?

這首老詩,還是好用,就貼在這裡,再來看看、想想。

Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.

1. 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; 5

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, 10

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. 15

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. 20