Jharkhand Board Class 9TH English Notes | THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
JAC Board Solution For Class 9TH English Poetry Chapter 1
COMPREHENSION
■ Read the following passage and answer the questions that
follow :―
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could no 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:
Q. (a) Name the poem from where this extract has been taken.
(b) Who has written these lines?
(c) Why did the poet feel sorry?
(d) Why did the poet stand long?
(e) Where did the two roads diverge?
Ans. (a) Poem- The Road Not Taken.
(b) Written by- Robert Frost.
(c) The poet felt sorry that he could not travel on both the
roads.
(d) The poet stood long, watching the roads and trying to
understand were it will reach at the end in the dense
forest.
(e) The two roads diverged in a yellow wood.
2. 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
Q. (a) Why did the not take the first road?
(b) What does "both" stand for?
(c) Why did the other road is considered?
Ans.(a) He did not take the first road because he thought that he
would travel on it some other day.
(b) "Both" stands for the two roads.
(c) Because it was 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 on to way;
I doubted if I should ever come back.
Q. (a) Was the poet certain to travel on the first road?
(b) What do you understand by "Way leads on to way".
(c) What did the poet doubt and why?
Ans. (a) The poet was not sure about travelling on the first road.
(b) When one chooses a course of action one gets so much
involved in it that there is no coming back for him.
(c) The poet knew that one way always leads further to
another. So he doubted he would ever come back and
travel by the first road.
4. I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I.
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Q. (a) When will he be telling it?
(b) How will he be telling it ?
(c) Why does the poet say with a sigh?
Ans.(a) He will be telling it for ages and ages in the future.
(b) He will be telling it by taking the less travelled path.
(c) Because, the two roads diverged into the forest and he
took the road one which is less travelled and has made
all the difference.
Short Answer Type Quesions
■ Answer these questions in about 30-40 words each :―
Q. 1. Where does the traveller find himself? What problem
does he face?
Ans. The traveller finds himself on a point where two roads
pass in different directions. He is in difficulty to decide as to which
road he should follow. Ultimately he chooses the less travelled
road.
Q.2. What did the two roads diverge?
Ans. The two roads diverged in yellow wood.
Q. 3. Why did the poet choose one particular road?
Ans. This road was grassy and less used. It seemed him better
than the other.
Q.4. Which road was "grassy and wanted wear"?
Ans. The road which the poet took was grassy and wanted
wear.
Q.5. What did the poet think about the first road?
Ans. The poet thought that the first road was equally covered
with leaves and nobody had walked on it that morning.
Q.6. What had made a lot of difference in the poet's life?
Ans. The poet had decided to take a road that was less travelled
by. Perhaps this choice proved to be a wrong one and he had to
face disappointment in his life.
Q. 7. What do the 'two roads' stand for?
Ans. The two roads stand for two ways of life. There are so
many opportunities in life and we have to choose one of them. We
regret for the lost choice.
Q. 8. Why will the poet be regretting 'ages and ages hence'?
Ans. He would regret for making a mistake in selection of the
way of life. He had two ways early in his life. He thought long to
take a decision and then accepted that way. He would think the
other way might have changed his life.
Q.9. Where were the two roads? What was the author's
difficulty ?
Ans. The poet while travelling. came across two diverging
roads in a forest. His difficulty was that it was not easy to decide
which road he should
take. Both the roads seemed equally good
that morning
Q.10. How did the poet make his choice about the roads?
Ans. The poet stood a long time watching them. Then he took
the one which he considered better than the other. It seemed to
him grassy and less worn. He thought that he would come back
one day to travel on the other road.
Q.11. What do these two roads signify?
Ans. The two roads signify the crisis of choice. There are
moments in life when we have to choose one between the two
while we want to have both of them. We make a choice. But very
often and long afterwards we regret our choice.
Q.12. What was the condition of the two roads?
Ans. On that morning the two roads looked very similar to
each other. They looked equally fair. Both of them were covered
with leaves. These had not yet been crushed by any feet.
Q. 13. Why does the poet tell his story 'with a sigh'?
Ans. The poet tells his story with a sigh because he remembers
the first road he could not travel on. He thought that his life could
be different or perhaps better, had he taken the first road makes
him sigh.
Q. 14. What do we often remember with a sigh?
Ans. We often remember with a sigh our lost opportunities.
Though we make our choice after deep thinking, we always
remember what we could not take. We remember with a sigh
everything gone by.
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