Question

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. (a) ‘trodden’ means__________ (i) walked over (ii) imprinted (iii) twisted (iv) reversed (b) In the third line, the poet wishes to___________. (i) travel the second road only (ii) travel the first road only (iii) travel the first road also sometime in future (iv) forget the first road forever c) The rhyme scheme of the above stanza is_________________. (i) ababb (ii) abaab (iii) abcab (iv) abcde​

Answer 1

Answer:

Q1. a) Robert Frost

b) abaab

c) both refers to the roads.

d) He thinks that he will return to the first road at some point in his life though he knows that he'll never be able to come back because each road leads to another road.

e) The poet doubted that he would ever be able to return to the first road.

f) the phrase means that no one has stepped on the leaves on the road so no black (ground below the leaves) is visible.

Q2. The two roads symbolize the choices in our life.

Q3. The poet is satisfied with his choice because he knows that though the path he has chosen is very difficult but he will be happy in the long run because he chose the path he really wanted to choose.