CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The poet’s attitude toward the poem’s speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader. Often described as a “mood” that pervades the experience of reading the poem, it is created by the poem’s vocabulary, metrical regularity or irregularity, syntax, use of figurative language, and rhyme.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mood: Contemplative and introspective Tone: Distrustful/Dismissive/Uneasy/Disapproving/Positive/Satisfactory 1. The distrust is created by the image of the changeling, which looks attractive but is too good to be true. 2. The dismissive tone is evident in the knowledge that the beauty of the frost is not lasting.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: The mood in Robert Frost’s ‘’The Road Not Taken” can be described as nostalgic. While the poem describes two roads in a wood, the speaker seems to be reflecting on a time in his life where he had an important decision to make.

Detailed explanation-4: -This is a key moment because Frost makes it clear that for all his self-deprecatory tone, the foolery and sarcasm, he is leading us to a declaration that education does have a responsibility to prepare young people to be citizens as well as members of a skilled work force.