Question

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –

I took the one less travelled by,

And that has made all the difference.

(i) In the first stanza, the poet is talking of the present time when he has to choose one

of the two roads. What time is he thinking of in the last stanza? Pick out the words in

support of your answer.

(ii) What has made all the difference?

Answer 1

Now we jump forward in time. We don't know exactly when, but we know that it's ages and ages "hence," or, from now. So we're probably talking years, not months.
We know that this story is important, because the speaker will still be telling it many years later.
He'll be telling it with a sigh, though, which is interesting because sighs can be happy, sad, or merely reflective – and we don't know what kind of sigh this is.
So, we know that this choice is probably going to be important for the speaker's future, but we don't know if he's going to be happy about it or not.