The Road not taken
I . Write down your answers.
1.Two words catch your eye in the first line. They bring
before you a beautiful picture. What words are they?
Answer:Two words catches our eyes are two roads diverge and yellow wood. The
poet stands in a place where the road he is travelling divides into two, as he
stands at cross roads in his life. It is the autumn season as the leaves on the
trees have turned yellow gives us a beautiful picture.
2.Where and when does a forest turn golden yellow?
Answer:In the forest, during autumn season leaves turn from green to yellow
which is a spectacularly beautiful season.
3.The poet stood for long at a point where two roads
forked.
Answer:True. And be one traveller, long I stood.
4.“I could not travel both And be one traveller”, Says
the poet. What does he mean by this? What word expresses his regret about this?
Answer:Poet regrets saying that he could not travel on both the roads and spend
his whole life as a traveller He knows that one must have a destination in life
and to this end, one must make choices. The word ‘sorry’ shows the poet’s
regret.
5.In life, sometimes, you are given two choices. But you
are to make only one choice. You cannot have both things. Can you give an
example of this? Try.
Answer:At a certain point in life, we will start working at that stage of life
we will not be to give to time to maybe other sectors or parts of life such as
family friends, and other personal things so when you are earning you can by
default not give time to all other things.
6.Complete this English proverb. “You cannot have
your cake and eat it too!”
Answer:There were two roads feeing the poet and he had to make a choice He
stood at the fork for a long time trying to decide. He looked down one road as
far as he could see till a point where it bent and he could use no further.
Then he decided to take another road.
7.So, what did the poet do? (See stanza 1. Refer to your
answer to question 4)
Answer:Poet regrets saying that he could not travel on both the roads and spend
his whole life as a traveller He knows that one must have a destination in life
and to this end, one must make choices. The word ‘sorry’ shows the poet’s
regret. The Poet took the road less traveled.
8.The poet took the other road. Why did he do that?
Answer:The poet took the other less used road because it needed more people to
travel on it. The other path was more used and so had less appeal for die poet,
who is of independent thinking and does not want to follow the crowd.
9.What, had worn the other road more or less the same?
Answer:On a particular morning on which he was travelling no one had trodden on
either of the two because the leaves that lay on the roads had not become black
from the tread of anyone’s footsteps. The Passing there had worn them really
about the same.
10.Once the second road looked to him more attractive.
Then both roads looked equally attractive. Explain this ‘ in your own words.
Answer:Traveller found it difficult to make a choice because both the roads
appeared attractive to him. On a deeper level both the choices in his life
would give him what he wanted from life-may be different things on different
paths so he had considered what things he wanted more and choose accordingly.
11.The poet expresses a wish and a doubt, in these two
sentences. Complete these sentences
Answer:I will come back to travel on another road. But doubt if I
should ever come back.
1. I will come back wishing to keep the other road for another day.
2. But doubt if once a certain direction has been chosen in life it is impossible to turn back.
12.According to the poet, one should always take the road
travelled by others before Explain this in your own words.
Answer:Not True.
All human beings are, at some time or other, dissatisfied with the choices we
have made. We keep thinking about how things would have been different had we
made another choice. In the same way, a poet in the future feels his life would
have been easier, he would have been more comfortable, richer, or happier had
he chosen the other road.
13.Do you think traveller is satisfied with his choice?
Answer:No, the traveller is not satisfied. He says that in the future he will
be telling how he. choose the less travelled road. With a sense of sorrow. He
would tell how he took the less frequented road and that made all the
difference in his life.
14.What was the desire of the traveller? Why could it not
be fulfilled?
Answer:The traveller would have liked to travel on both the roads but he had to
choose one. He thought that he would keep the other road for another day and
would come back to it. However, he knew it was impossible because one road
leads to another in life until it is impos¬sible to turn back.
15.What impression do you form on the traveller?
Answer:We learn that traveller is not an impulsive man. He reflects a great
deal before he makes a choice. We also learn that he is independent and that he
prefers the road fewer people have travelled by, even though he may have to
face greater difficulties while travelling along with it.
16.Who is the narrator here? Where did he stand?
Answer:The poet himself is the narrator and so the poem is autobiographical in
nature. He stands at the crossroads in his life, a place where the road he is
travelling divides into two. He is standing at the fork in the road.
II Read this dialogue and supply the missing words
- Amar: I’m sorry I took science in high school
- Akbar: Why do you feel so sorry about it, friend? I also took a Science. I regret it a bit too.
- Antony: Yes, but why do you like it so much. Amar?
- Amar: I now know I don’t have the aptitude for Arts?
- Akbar: So you regret now taking Arts, -do you?
- Antony: Then why did you take Science?
- Amar: Very few students took Science then. So Science seemed attractive at that time.
III Rhyming Words:
The lines of this poem ends with “rhyming words” in the pattern a – b – a – a –
b. Find the rhyming words and read them out to your partner.
RHYMING WORDS
Wood – Stood – could
both – undergrowth
fair – wear – there
claim – same
lay – day – way
black – back
Sigh – I bye
hence – difference
IV Multiple Choice Questions
1.The poem “Road not taken” was written by _____.
a) Rudyard Kipling
b) trojans Hardy
c) Anon
d) Robert frost.
Answer:d) Robert frost.
2.Poet found it ____ to make choice.
a) easy
b) difficult
c) by following others
d) None.
Answer:b) difficult
3.Poet is a kind of man who takes up ___decisions
a) by following the crowd
b) independently
c) staying in confusion to make a choice
Answer:b) independently
4.Poet was _____ at his choice atlas!
a) regret
b) happy
c) sad
d) confused.
Answer:b) happy
5.Poet wanted to travel on _____ roads.
a) both
b) single
c) less travelled
d) more travelled
Answer:a) both
6.Poet was standing for _____ time.
a) long
b) short
c) just for a while
Answer:a) long
7.The poet wanted to choose ______
a) less treaded road
b) more treaded road
c) better road
d) none
Answer:a) less treaded road
8.Word “yellow” signifies.
a) spring season
b) autumn season
c) green changes into yellow
d) wood
Answer:b) autumn season
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