CLASS 9
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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looked down
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one traveler
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two roads
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long I stood
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Detailed explanation-1: -Those two roads diverged, forcing Frost to choose one, but this means that he also necessarily had to choose not to take the other. In opting for one road, he was consciously rejecting the other. Frost’s poem describes how he came to a fork in the road and wished he could have taken both paths.
Detailed explanation-2: -The line ‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood’ refers to the divergent paths the solitary narrator encounters on his autumnal journey, which represent the difficult choices we must often make alone.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poet, Robert Frost, wrote: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-/ I took the one less traveled by / And that has made all the difference.” The word diverge in the poem carries both the meaning of separating and of being apart from the main. As a poet, it was Frost’s job to use words properly.
Detailed explanation-4: -diverged: separated and took a different direction. yellow wood: a forest with decomposing leaves. undergrowth: dense growth of plants and bushes means the forest)