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(iv) What doubt harboured in the mind of the poet? (i) Why did the poet leave the first road?

(iv) The travellers would blacken them by their steps. (ii) They were covered with fallen leaves.

(i) The word ‘both’ here refers to both the roads. (i) What does the word “both’ refer to here? (iv) The second road is “grassy and wanted wear a means the second road was grassy because it had not worn off due to walking of the travellers. (iii) The phrase “as just as fair’ here means that the road is exactly the same and equally beautiful a the first one. (ii) He chooses this road because it is still grassy and has not worn off due to walking of the traveller. (i) The poet eventually chooses the other road which is less travelled. (iv) Explain the phrase “grassy and wanted wear. (iii) Explain the phrase “as just as fair. (i) Which road does the poet eventually choose? (iv) The road disappears from his eyes in bushes and low trees. (iii) He is looking at the road down as far as he could. (ii) The poet stands there for a long time to decide on which road he should choose to travel on. (i) The poet feels sorry for being the lonely traveller. (iv) Where does the road disappear from his eyes? (ii) Why does the poet stand there for a long time? (i) How does the poet feel being the lonely traveller? (iv) The poem is “The Road Not Taken’ and it is written by Robert Frost. (iii) The two roads diverge in a yellow wood. (ii) The poet feels sorry because he is unable to travel on both the roads. (i) The poet is standing at a junction in a yellow forest where two roads separated in two different directions.

(i) Where is the poet standing at this moment? Read the extracts and answer the following questions: Long I stood we normally say “I stood longĭiverge- to separate and go in a different direction,ĭifference- a point or way in which people or things are not same,.

In the poem the poet uses the fork in the road as a metaphor for the choices we make in life.Instead he is using the concept of a diverging road to relate to making decisions in life. Here the poet is not talking about a road fork in the woods. The poem contains four stanzas and each stanza contains five lines. Perfect rhymes are “lay and way’ and slant rhymes are both and undergrowth. The rhyme-scheme of the poem “The Road Not Taken’ is ab aa b.