Question

1. What is talked about mainly in the first stanza?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

• In the first stanza the poet wants to say that one must not waste his life sitting idle or sleeping but he must be able to enjoy every moment of life, as life is full of dreams to be completed.

• We must not take life lightly and pessimistically. He further adds that soul is dead for the inactive people. Though our body dies soul is immortal. It lives forever and hence he encourages his readers not to waste life, as life is too short and more work is to be done. He instructs about how to live and utilize one’s life meaningfully.

Answer 2

In the first stanza, the poet is talking of the present time when he has to choose one of the two roads.