The Road Not Taken | Question Solutions
The Road Not Taken Question Solutions
-Robert Frost
TEXTUAL QUESTION SOLUTIONS
Thinking about the poem.
Q.1. Where does the traveller find himself? What problem does he face?
Ans. The traveller finds himself in a yellow wood where the road diverged into two roads. His problem was to decide which road he would take to walk on.
Q.2. Discuss what these phrases mean to you:
(i) a yellow wood.
(ii) it was grassy and wanted wear.
(iii) the passing there.
(iv) leaves no step had trodden black
(v) how way leads on to way
Ans. (i) ‘A Yellow wood’ means a wood the leaves of whose trees turned yellow in season.
(ii) ‘It was grassy and wanted wear’ refers to the road that the poet decided to walk on which was full of grass as fewer people travelled through the road.
(iii) ‘The passing there’ means going through the road that the poet decided to travel ahead.
(iv) ‘Leaves no steps had trodden black’ means that the leaves of trees laying on the road was trodden by no traveller.
(v) ‘how way leads on to way’ means one road leads to another road.
Q.3. Is there any difference between the two roads as the poet describes them?
(i) In stanzas two and three.
(ii) in the last two lines of the poem.
Ans. Yes, there is a difference between the two roads. The first one was much trodden and the other was covered with grass as it was trodden less.
(ii) In the last two lines of the poem the poet says that he had taken the less trodden road which made his life a difference.
Q.4. What do you think the last two lines of the poem mean? (Looking back, does the poet regret his choice or accept it?)
Ans. Between the two roads diverging in the yellow forest, the poet took the one that was less travelled. His choice made all the differences in his life. He did not regret his decision.
ADDITIONAL QUE SOLUTIONS
Q.1 Who is the poet of the poem ‘The Road not Taken’?
Ans. The poet of the poem ‘The Road not Taken’ is Robert Frost.
Q.2. Of what colour was the wood?
Ans. The wood was of yellow colour.
Q.3. Why could not the poet travel both the roads?
Ans. The poet could not travel both roads because he was a lonely traveller.
Q.4. How was the other road?
Ans. The other road was as fair as the first one.
Q.5. What did the poet say about the first road?
Ans. About the first road, the poet said that he had left it for another day.
Q.6. What is the meaning of undergrowth?
Ans. The meaning of ‘undergrowth’ is a dense growth of plants and bushes.
Q.7 Where did the poet find the roads?
Ans. The poet found the roads in a yellow wood. 0 0 0.
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