![]() ![]() (e) How do you understand the expression ‘grassy and wanted wear’?Īnswer. – ‘ As just as fair’ means that the second road was just as beautiful as the first one. (d) What does the poet mean by ‘as just as fair’?Īnswer. – The rhyme-scheme of these lines is ab, aa, b. (c) What is the rhyme scheme of the given lines?Īnswer. – The second road presented a better claim as it was still grassy and had not been used by many travellers. ![]() ![]() (b) Why did the second road present a better claim than the first?Īnswer. – The other road was as fair and beautiful as the first one. (q) Who is the author of the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’?Īnswer. The roads represent the different chokes that one has to make in his/her life. (p) What is the meaning of the word ‘diverged’? What do the roads represent in these lines?Īnswer. (o) Why did the poet look down as far as he could?Īnswer.- The poet was unhappy that he could not take that road as he chose the other one and, that is why he looked as far as he could. Although they had been worn out equally, that morning both lay untrodden.Īnswer.- The expression means that he was an individual who couldn’t travel two roads at the same time. – He felt like travelling both the roads as both of them looked equally fair and promising. (m) why did he feel like travelling both the roads?Īnswer. ![]() (l) The poet here is using “roads” as symbols of: (k) What did the narrator see in the wood?Īnswer.- The narrator saw two paths diverging in the forest. He also regrets the fact that he cannot come back to the start once he makes a choice.Īnswer.- The poet feels sorry that he can’t travel on both the roads diverging in the forest before him. – The narrator regrets the fact that he cannot travel on both paths. (h) What choice did the narrator have to make?Īnswer.- The narrator had to choose between the two roads.Īnswer. (g) What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza?Īnswer.- The rhyme scheme of the stanza is ab aab. What did the speaker do while standing for a long time?Īnswer.- The poet stands long because he was in a dilemma about which road to take. But, since he can't really predict the future, he can only see part of the path.Answer.- ‘Yellowwood’ means that the leaves have turned yellow because of the autumn season. If our speaker is, as we suspect, at a fork in the road of his life, and not at an actual road, he could be trying to peer into his future as far as he can. This is where we start to think about the metaphorical meanings of this poem.But he can only see up to the first bend, where the undergrowth, the small plants and greenery of the woods, blocks his view. He's staring down one road, trying to see where it goes. The speaker really wants to go down both paths – he's thinking hard about his choice.Because he's standing, we know that he's on foot, and not in a carriage or a car. Because of the impossibility of traveling both roads, the speaker stands there trying to choose which path he's going to take.The speaker is "sorry" he can't travel both roads, suggesting regret.The speaker wants to go down both roads at once, but since it's impossible to walk down two roads at once, he has to choose one road."Diverged" is just another word for split.The woods are yellow, which means that it's probably fall and the leaves are turning colors.This poem was first published in 1916, when cars were only just beginning to become prominent, so these roads in the wood are probably more like paths, not roads like we'd think of them today. Our speaker is describing a fork in the road. ![]()
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