The Road Not Taken

1. How many travelers are there in the poem?
2. What does yellow wood refer to?
3. Why do you think the persona stood for a long time?
4. Why do you think the persona said he is sorry in the poem?
5. What does the line “Because it was grassy and wanted wear” mean?
6. Which road did the persona take?
7. Why do you think he took that road?
8. What do you think the persona meant by the line Oh, I kept the first for another day?
9. What is the persona trying to say in “And both that morning equally lay”?
10. Explain what is meant by the phrase “kept the first for another day”?
11. Why does the persona doubt that he should ever come back?
12. Why do you think the two roads in the first stanza represents?
13. Why did the persona choose the other path?
14. What is the persona referring to when he mentions the word both? (Stanza 3)
15. Which expression tells us that no one had walked on either road that morning?
16. Which word means exhale noisily?
17. In your own words, explain the last two line of the poem?
18. What season was it? Support your answer with words from the stanza.
19. The word diverged in the first line means…..
20. Which word tells us that the persona felt a sense of regret?
21. In your own words, explain the last for line in Stanza 1.
22. What is the poet trying to say in the line “And both that morning equally lay”?
23. Explain briefly when the poet says when “I kept the first for another day”.
24. Why will the poet tell the story with a sigh?
25. If you are the persona, which road would you chose? Give reasons for your answer.
26. Why did the other road have better claim?
27. Give the meaning of the following words:
a. yellow wood
b. Undergrowth
28. Describe the two paths that the persona faced.
29. In the last stanza, what does the persona mean when he says, “And that has made all the difference”?
30. What information does the phrase yellow wood tell you about the place where the persona is walking?
31. What does the word both in line 2, Stanza i refer to?
32. Which word in Stanza I shows regret?
33. “long I stood”. In your own words, what do you think the phrase indicates about the persona’s feeling at this time?
34. Which phrase in Stanza 1 describes the season?
35. What was the poet’s feeling when he stated that he could not travel on both roads?
36. Which road did he take in the end?
37. What must the traveler do?
38. Why is the traveler said ‘sorry’?
39. Which road does he take?
40. Do you think that the traveler has made the better choice? Why?
41. What does ‘just as fair’ tell you about the two roads?
42. Why does he take the ‘one less travelled by’?
43. How does his choice make ‘all the difference’?
44. Why does the poet doubt whether he will come back to the road he did not take?
45. Where is the traveler now literally and symbolically?
46. a) What is the traveler’s wish?
b) How is this true of the choices that we make in life?
47. Is the title suitable for the poem? Why?
48. Who is the persona in the poem?
49. What do the two roads represent?
50. What does the word ‘diverged’ mean?