CLASS 9
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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“Oh, I kept the first for another day.”
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“Yet knowing how way leads to way.”
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“I doubted I should ever look back.”
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“Both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden back.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: “Both” in the above stanza refers to two roads which diverged in different directions. “In leaves no step had trodden back” means that both the roads were covered with yellow leaves and nobody had walked on them.
Detailed explanation-2: -(iv) In leaves no step had trodden black The poet means to say that both the roads on that morning appeared identical as both were covered with leaves and no footsteps had trodden over them.
Detailed explanation-3: -The speaker remarks that the paths ‘both that morning equally lay/ In leaves no step had trodden black. ‘ By this observation, he means that the newly-fallen leaves covering paths have not been trampled by people or animals passing through.
Detailed explanation-4: -In leaves no step had trodden black. That morning when the poet saw both the roads, they were looking quite similar. Both the roads were covered with leaves fallen from the trees over them; and no one had trodden on them that morning.
Detailed explanation-5: -Both the morning equally lay” refers to both paths. They are (almost) equal in the eyes of the speaker. Nothing much differentiates them aside from that one is less traveled than the other, simply meaning that less people have walked upon it.