Question

The Road not Taken
B. Answer the questions with reference to context.
a. What is being referred to as 'the other'?
a. What do the phrases 'lay in leaves' and 'trodden black' mean?
b. What did the poet ultimately decide to do?
c. What does he say about his choice?
3. I took the one less travelled by,/And that has made all the difference.
a. What does the poet imagine himself saying about his choice in the future?
b. What does the phrase 'one less travelled by' mean? Explain the last line of the extract.
c. Why would the poet 'sigh' while saying these lines?
3. Then took the other, as just as fair,/And having perhaps the better claim
b. What does the poet mean by the phrase 'better claim'? Why did it have a better claim?
c. Even though the 'other' had the better claim, how was it similar to another path?
2. And both that morning equally lay/In leaves no step had trodden black.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

a)Question 1.

Discuss “leaves no step had trodden black”.

Answer:

Leaves no step had trodden black: When leaves are crushed under feet, they turn black. The poet finds fresh leaves on the road. These were not turned black as nobody had crushed them. It implies that the road was not taken by many travellers.