CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The two roads in ‘The Road Not Taken’ hardly differ. The first road is described as bending into the undergrowth. The second road is described as “just as fair, ” though it was “grassy and wanted wear."

Detailed explanation-2: -(i) The poet sees two roads diverging in a yellow wood. Perhaps it was autumn and both the roads were covered with dead or fallen yellow leaves. The first one went down in ‘the undergrowth’ of the forest. The other road was equally beautiful, grassy and ‘wanted wear’.

Detailed explanation-3: -This poem by Robert Frost describes the dilemma a walker faces when the path he is treading diverges into “two roads.” The two roads are, in fact, nearly identical. The first one, as the speaker looks down it, takes a bend into the undergrowth of the forest, precluding him from seeing its end.

Detailed explanation-4: -But we, the readers, know that it wasn’t taking that road that made the difference. In fact, that road that I took, it wasn’t any less traveled by than the first. We know that from the first and second stanzas. The roads were the same.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ans: The poet Robert Frost chose the road “ less travelled by” when he was faced with two roads that “ diverged in a yellow wood” .