{"id":10798,"date":"2017-03-01T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/?p=10798"},"modified":"2018-09-19T22:50:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:50:40","slug":"teacher-diaries-mr-rex-the-poem-i-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/2017\/03\/teacher-diaries-mr-rex-the-poem-i-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Diaries: Mr. Rex &#8211; The Poem I Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is full of dilemmas. Inevitably, we must make decisions without the help of a crystal ball when we come to a fork in a road. As time goes by, sometimes we regret; sometimes we wish we had taken another path. But life goes on.<\/p>\n<p>The Road Not Taken by American Poet Robert Frost vividly illustrates the existential despair of a human being in a world fraught with uncertainties. Whilst the poem ends on a sad note, I have a different outlook. In face of life\u2019s precariousness, we must keep our head up and brace ourselves for the challenges. There is no other way.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have the courage to take the road \u201cless traveled by\u201d, which will make \u201call the difference\u201d?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Road Not Taken<\/strong> by <em>Robert Frost<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,<br \/>\nAnd sorry I could not travel both<br \/>\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood<br \/>\nAnd looked down one as far as I could<br \/>\nTo where it bent in the undergrowth;<\/p>\n<p>Then took the other, as just as fair,<br \/>\nAnd having perhaps the better claim,<br \/>\nBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;<br \/>\nThough as for that the passing there<br \/>\nHad worn them really about the same,<\/p>\n<p>And both that morning equally lay<br \/>\nIn leaves no step had trodden black.<br \/>\nOh, I kept the first for another day!<br \/>\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,<br \/>\nI doubted if I should ever come back.<\/p>\n<p>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br \/>\nSomewhere ages and ages hence:<br \/>\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I\u2014<br \/>\nI took the one less traveled by,<br \/>\nAnd that has made all the difference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is full of dilemmas. Inevitably, we must make decisions without the help of a crystal ball when we come to a fork in a road. As time goes by, sometimes we regret; sometimes we wish we had taken another path. But life goes on. The Road Not Taken by American Poet Robert Frost vividly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[713],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12359,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798\/revisions\/12359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}