“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;
1. Name the poem and the poet of these lines.
2. Why did the poet look down as far as he could?
3. What do the roads represent in these lines?
4. What does the yellow wood mean?
5. What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
6. Why did the poet feel sorry?
Answers
Answer:
1. Poem -The road not taken
Poet- Robert Frost
2. The poet looked far as he could because he wanted to find the difference between the two roads.
3. The roads in this lines represent our daily life situations.
4. ` Yellow wood' refers to the jungle with decomposing leaves shed from the trees.
5.ABAAB
6.The poet feel sorry that he could not travel on both the roads.
The answers to the given questions are as follows:
1. The name of the poem is ' The road not taken ' and the name of the poet is ' Robert Frost '.
2. The poet looked far as he could because he
wanted to find the difference between the two roads.
3. The roads in this lines represent the decisions we make in our life.
4. ' Yellow wood ' refers to the jungle with dried leaves shed from the trees.
5. The rhyme scheme of this stanza is ABAAB.
6. The poet feel sorry that he could not travel both the roads.