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Question 1 1. Where does the traveler find himself? What problem does he face? 2. Discuss what these phrases mean to you. (i) A yellow wood (ii) It was grassy and wanted wear (iii) The passing there (iv) Leaves no step had trodden black (v) How way leads on to way 3. Is there any difference between the two roads as the poet describes them (i) in stanzas two and three? (ii) in the last two lines of the poem? 4. What do you think the last two lines of the poem mean? (Looking back, does the poet regret his choice or accept it?)

Class 9 - English - The Road Not Taken (Poem) Page 16

Answer 1

Hi I will share my notes of English to help

Answer 2

11.the traveller finds himself in an autumn forest, where the two roads diverged into a yellow wood, and he couldn't decide which one to choose. This can also be a metaphor for when the traveller is confused between making a choice at a certain point in his life. 

2. (i) - the phrase 'a yellow wood' describes the state of the forest in the autumn season, when the leaves turn yellow and fall down. 

(ii) the road was grassy and green, almost too perfect. This road was so unused and the grass grew over the roads or the surface. 

(iii) The use of the road walking there. 

(iv) It was the morning time, and no traveller had yet walked on the leaves and trampled them. 

(v) Once a person decides which way to follow(Course of time), one gets so involved in it, that there's no looking back or coming back. 

3. (ii) In the last two lines of the poem, the poet is comparing the two roads and almost regrets the choice he made, thinking that maybe his would've been different if he choose the second road. (Also answer to  4) 

(i) in stanzas two and three, the poet also describes both of the roads, one of them grassy and green, almost too perfect and unused, and the other one which was worn out.