The Road Not Taken (poem)
Extract Based Questions (3 marks each)
Read the extract given below and answers the question that follow.
Question 1:
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follows :
Two roads diverged in yellow wood.
And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller, long I stood And locked down once as far
as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
1. At which point had the poet reached ?
2. Why was the traveller feeling sorry ?
3. Give the opposite to ‘met at a point’ from the passage ? (SA-1,2014-15)
Answer:
1. The poet is standing at a point where two roads diverged in the yellow wood.
2. The poet is feeling sorry because he could not travel both the roads.
3. ‘Diverged’.
Question 2:
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden back Oh, I kept the first for
another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted it if I should ever come back
1. Which road does the poet choose ?
2. Why was the poet doubtful about the first road ?
3. Find a word from the extract that means ‘crushed’. (Board Term 1,2012, ELI-013)
Answer:
1. The poet took the second road.
2. The poet chose the second road over the first thinking that he would come to it some other
day. Yet, he was very doubtful that he would ever be able to come back to it someday.
3. Trodden.
Question 3:
Then took the other, 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.
1. Why did the poet take the other road?
2. What did the poet discover while travelling on the other road?
3. What do the given lines suggest about the speaker? (Board Term 1,2012, ELI-017)
Answer:
1. The poet took the other road because he thought that it was more challenging to travel on it
as only a few had used (trodden on) it.
2. The poet discovered, while travelling on the other road, that the second was almost equally
used as the first one.
3. The given lines suggest that the speaker loved challenges and difficulties.
Question 4:
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
