CLASS 9
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The speaker thinks both paths are equally good.
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The speaker is only one person and cannot go down two roads at the same time.
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The speaker would rather travel with someone, so they could each explore a path.
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The speaker regrets not taking the other road at the start.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Question: The phrase “and sorry I could not travel both/And be one traveler” means: The speaker believes that even if he returns to the crossroads later and takes the other road, he will be in some sense have become a different traveler by virtue of having taken the first road.
Detailed explanation-2: -The speaker thinks both paths are equally good. The speaker is only one person and cannot go down two roads at the same time. The speaker would rather travel with someone, so they could each explore a path.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the poem – ‘The Road Not Taken’, the road symbolizes our life. The poet says that the path that we don’t choose in our life is the road not taken. He describes his feelings about that choice that he had left in the past. The path which we have chosen, decides our future, our destination.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lines 1-2. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both” The poet while travelling on foot in the woods reaches a junction where two roads diverge. Immediately, he realizes that as a traveller travelling both the roads is impossible. Here two roads are meant two ways of life.
Detailed explanation-5: -The speaker is “sorry” he can’t travel both roads, suggesting regret. Because of the impossibility of traveling both roads, the speaker stands there trying to choose which path he’s going to take.