Question

2. What does the poet mean when he says 'Weather and rain have undone it
again'?​

Answer 1

Answer:

the way through the woods summary | Aparajitakumari's Blog It begins with the mention of a road through the woods that was closed seventy years ago. Left undisturbed for such duration, weather and rain have 'undone' the road which means that the place where the road once existed has returned back to its state prior to the formation of the road.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

The Way Through The Woods’ is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. As a poet he infuses a vitality into his verse and his poetry is genuine in its theme and thought. In his best works he can be realistic and vigorous and his words strike us with profound understanding. His is the poetry of action and adventure. The poen is a part of his collection of short stories ‘Rewards and Fairies’. Each story in the historical fantasy collection is preceded and followed by a poem and this included the famous ‘If-‘, ‘Cold iron’ and ‘The Way Through The Woods’ itself.

The poem contains elements of the supernatural. It begins with the mention of a road through the woods that was closed seventy years ago. Left undisturbed for such duration, weather and rain have ‘undone’ the road which means that the place where the road once existed has returned back to its state prior to the formation of the road. Now no one could tell if there was ever a road through the woods. So no one would ever know about it because it has disappeared beneath the bushy undergrowth. It is now hidden away from the human eye and it can no longer be ascertained where it actually lay.

Trees that were planted after the road was shut out from activity have grown up and the road that existed there is now a part of the woods itself.

Here in the succeeding lines the poet explains how the road is now full of activity and life. It lies beneath uncultivated shrubs and flowering plants like the anemones. It is occupied by the ringdove that broods there and the burrowing badger which rolls in it playfully.

The next stanza makes the reader realise that there is more to the road lost in antiquity than meets the eye if one ventured forth into the woods on a late summer evening. The night air cools above the pools that abound in trouts and the otter calls out to its mate and these creatures do not fear human presence as there are scarcely people entering the woods.

One would hear the trampling of a horse’s hoofs when the horse isn’t physically present. Perhaps it is a ghost from the past when the road was used by men on horseback. One would even hear the swish of skirts moving amongst dew covered grass. From the sound one could discern that they move in easy steady strides as if they perfectly knew where the road lay even when a living person wouldn’t be able to distinguish it because it is no longer the road that could be traversed seventy years ago. The poem ends with a hint of paradox when the poet asserts that there is surely no road through the woods when the recurring theme throughout the poem is the way through the woods.

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