In this excerpt from "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, which pair of lines casts doubt on the certainty the speaker felt when choosing one path over the other?
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
Read Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay." Which theme does the poet explore in the poem?
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
A.
the value of gold
B.
the permanence of art
C.
the necessity of wealth
D.
the impermanence of beauty
E.
the permanence of love
Why does Emily Dickinson capitalize most of the nouns in these lines from her poem "A curious Cloud surprised the Sky"?
A curious Cloud surprised the Sky,
'Twas like a sheet with Horns;
The sheet was Blue—
The Antlers Gray—
It almost touched the lawns.
A.
to draw attention to certain ideas
B.
to give the poem a singsong effect
C.
to provide a unique twist to the poem
D.
to reflect the unpredictable nature of life
E.
to divide the important from the mundane
Read this excerpt from “You are Old, Father William” by Lewis Carroll. What figure of speech is used?
“You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose—
What made you so awfully clever?”
A.
simile
B.
metaphor
C.
exaggeration
D.
dramatic irony
E.
paradox
Answers
And looked down one as far as I could"shows the doubt of the poet.
2.D.Impermanence of beauty
4.B. Metaphor
In the above excerpt from "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, the pair of lines which casts doubt on the certainty the speaker felt when choosing one path over the other are:
“And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could”
[These lines are from the poem “The Road Not Taken” written by Robert Frost. In this poem, the poet has highlighted the dilemma which a person undergoes when he gets options in his life. The inclination towards the most taken road and the rejection of the least brings a person in the state of dilemma. Both the roads are equally attractive as the most taken and the least taken but the person has only one choice to make.]
The theme that the poet explore in the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost is:
D. the impermanence of beauty
[The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” by Robert Frost is about the inevitability of things which are beautiful and soothing. Frost explores the theme that although youth is beautiful and charming, it will be lost someday. He shows this change with the examples taken from nature. He adds that the flowers which bloom in spring season will be lost and the children will grow and turn into adults. He takes the example of the Fall of man to show that every beautiful thing can be turned down.]
Emily Dickinson capitalize most of the nouns in the lines from her poem "A curious Cloud surprised the Sky"
A. to draw attention to certain ideas
The figure of speech used in the above excerpt from “You are Old, Father William” by Lewis Carroll is:
B. metaphor
[A metaphor is a hidden comparison between two things which possess at least any one idea common to each other. The things may be completely different from each other but would have either one characteristic in common to them.]