CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: The setting of the poem is a wood where the poet, Robert Frost, has gone for a walk. He comes to a fork in the woods and does not know which path to take. Both the roads are equally attractive and inviting.

Detailed explanation-2: -The poem takes place in a forest in autumn, after the leaves have begun to change color. More specifically, the poem takes place at a spot in the woods at which a road forks into two.

Detailed explanation-3: -Our setting is in a forest, but it’s not “lovely dark and deep” like the woods in one of Frost’s other famous poems, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Instead, these woods are just yellow, and our speaker is not, like in the other poem, in a horse drawn cart, but on foot.

Detailed explanation-4: -The yellow leaves suggest that the poem is set in autumn, perhaps in a section of woods filled mostly with alder or birch trees. The leaves of both turn bright yellow in fall, distinguishing them from maple leaves, which flare red and orange.

Detailed explanation-5: -’Two roads diverged in a wood’-this sentence is repeated in stanzas 1 and 4. The main theme of “The Road Not Taken” is that life is full of choices which will define our destinies. The speaker spends a while deliberating when he comes to a fork in the road, which symbolizes a choice he must make in his life.