INDIAN SCHOOL MUSCAT
Department Of English
Class IX
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
By –Robert Frost
1. (a) The poem ‘The Road Not Taken is all about the _____________________.
(i) The roads.
(ii) The choices one makes in life.
(iii) The traveller
(b) ‘The Road Not Taken’ is a ____________ poem.
(i) ballad
(ii) biographical
(iii) autobiographical
(c) Robert Frost uses the fork in the road as a ___________ for the choices we
make in life.
(i) alliteration
(ii) simile
(iii) metaphor
2. “Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same”
(a) What does “other” refer to in the above lines?
(b) Which road did the narrator choose?
(c) Explain “grassy and wanted wear”?
3.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Explain : ‘leaves no step had trodden black.’
What did the speaker think of the first road?
What is the doubt in the speaker’s mind?
Give the rhyme scheme of these lines.
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4.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence :
Two roads diverged in a wood and II took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
(a) What difference does the road less travelled by make to the poet’s life?
(b) What do the two diverging roads symbolize?
(c) What would the speaker tell ages later?
(d) Why would he be saying it with a sigh?
5.
Answer the following questions in not more than two or three sentences.
(a)
What is a wood? What did the narrator see in the wood? Were the paths
similar?
What did the narrator hope that he would do one day? Was he sure of doing
so?
Discuss the significance of the title, ‘The Road Not Taken.’
What moral does this poem offer us?
(b)
(c)
(d)
6.
Answer the following question in not more than 75 words:
Why does the poet say he shall tell people “this with a sigh”? Why do you think the
final stanza starts with a sigh?
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