Question

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Read the extracts below and answer in a word/phrase the questions that follow :-
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"Then took the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear"
(a) Name the poem. (b) Name the poet. (c) Where was the poet 'standing??
(d) Why did the choose the other road? (e) What does the poet's use of 'perhaps' show?
Or, "Now is memory comes my mother,
As she used in years agone,
To regard the darling dreamers
Ere she left them till the dawn"
(a) Name the poem. (b) Who were 'darling dreamers'? (c) Who comes to the poet's memory.
(d) Name the poet. (e) What figure of speech is there in 'darling dreamers'?​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) The Road not taken

b) Robert Frost

c) The poet is standing at a point where two roads diverged in the yellow wood.

d) The poet took the other road because he thought that it was more challenging to travel on it as only a few had used (trodden on) it.

e) He talks about how he thought he took the road that was in better condition than the other.

OR

a) Rain on the roof

b) The “darling dreamers” are those ‘kids’ who remember their mothers like the poet.

c) The single major memory that comes to the poet is that of his mother.

d) Coates Kinney

e) Alliteration