Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow in one or two lines.
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;"
(a) Name the poem and the poet of these lines.
(b) Why does the poet feel 'sorry'?
(c) Where do the two roads diverge in?
(d) What does the "yellow wood' mean?
(e) Why does the poet stand long? OR
"... long I stood'. What did the speaker do while standing for a long time?
O What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza?
Answers
Answer:
(a)poet-Robert frost
poem -The road not taken
(b)he felt sorry because he can not travel on both the road at the same time...
(c)the two roads diverged in the yellow wood forest..
(d)yellow wood means that it a autum/spring season so all the trees were looking yellow in colour..
(e)the poet stand long because he is decideing which road he have to take for reaching his destination.
(f)abaab is rhyme scheme of above stanza.
Here is your answer
(a) The name of this poem is 'The Road Not Taken ' and the poet of this poem is Robert Frost
(b) The poet feel sorry because he can not travel both the roads only one he can choose
(c) The two roads diverged in a yellow wood
(d) Yellow wood represent the forests at the time of spring when leaves becomes yellowish
(e) Poet stand there for long because he was confused $ was thinking which road/path he should choose to get succees in life
Rhyming scheme of the poem is : abaab