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Robert Frost's famous poem, The Road Not Taken, is in Chapter 1 of the Class 9 English Beehive book. It's about a person in the woods looking at two paths -- a cool image for how life is. People see it in different ways, but it's basically saying our choices make us who we are.
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The Road Not Taken is a poem about making choices. The person in the poem is at a fork in the road and picks one, knowing it'll change things. The poem represents how our decisions have effects we can't predict. It asks us to think about how our choices make us who we are.
Here's what it's about:
Ans. The traveller finds himself in the yellow woods at a point where the road forks into two. He faces the problem of choice. He cannot decide which road to take to continue his journey since it is not possible for him to travel both roads at the same time. 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
Ans. (i) Yellow wood symbolises the autumn season. As Autumn corresponds to withering of old leaves, the poet could be symbolically talking about the later stages of life. (ii) It conveys that the road was full of grass and nobody had used that road. It was a smooth road which had not worn out. It was an unexplored opportunity. (iii) The use of the path by a passersby. (iv) It represents a path which was never / seldom taken in life for the fear of uncertainty. No traveller had trodden on either of the two roads. It was evident from the fact that the fallen and sodden leaves lay uncrushed there. No feet had trampled them. (v) This phrase means how certain decisions one makes in life could pave the way for many other decisions. 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?
Ans. (i) In stanza two the poet explains that the only difference between the two roads was that the road he took is a better claim because it was covered with grass and was never taken before. Besides this difference, both roads had been equally worn down by the passers-by travelling on them. In stanza three, the poet says that both the roads were equally covered with leaves and that no person had stepped on them. (ii) In the last two lines of the poem the poet says that there is a difference between the two roads because he took the road that was less taken by other people and that made all the difference to his journey. 4. What do you think the last two lines of the poem mean? (Looking back, does the poet regret his choice or accept it?) Ans. In the last two lines of the poem, the poet accepts the reality. The poet made a choice and accepted the challenging path. He took the unexplored path in his life. He wanted to do something different in his life so he chose the less travelled road.
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