CLASS 9
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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After choosing the first road, the speaker will return and go down the other road.
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The speaker does not like to travel in the same part of the woods more than once.
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The speaker likes to walk in the woods alone and knows the way very well.
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After choosing the first road, the speaker will not return to go down the other road.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Oh, I kept the first for another day! The speaker seems like he’s already regretting his decision. He is rationalizing his choice of path by saying he’ll come back to the one he missed later. This is a familiar way to deal with difficult choices; “you can always come back and try it again later, ” we think.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer-The poet kept the first road for another day in the hope that he would travel it in the future. But all know that our future is uncertain.
Detailed explanation-3: -We see this in the last lines of the poem, which read: I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Essentially, the speaker is saying that later in life he will look back in time and see that moment as one of great significance.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: the speaker is trying to tell us that life offers us many choices but we should choose one if them with a futuristic view properly.
Detailed explanation-5: -In the last line of the poem, the speaker is telling his “brothers” to row till the “edge of the verge” where the sky and the sea seem to “mate” which refers to the point where the sky touches the sea.