FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH - KSEEB - CLASS 07 - COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

 

Poem - 06

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

 

Robert Frost

C. Speaking, Reading and Writing

Work with your partner. Take turns to ask or answer these questions. Explain to him or her why you think your answer is correct. Quote from the poem if necessary. Write down your answers.

 

1) Two words catch your eye in the first line. They bring before you a beautiful picture. What words are they?

Ans: Two roads diverge and yellow wood are two words to catch our eye in the first line. The poet remains in a spot where the street he is voyaging separates into two, as he remains at go across streets throughout his life. It is the pre-winter season as the leaves on the trees have turned yellow.

 

2) Where and when does a forest turn golden yellow?

Ans: The forest turns golden yellow in the forest during autumn season.

 

3) The poet stood for long at a point where two roads forked. (True / Not True) Read out to your partner the lines from the poem. 

Ans: It is true that the poet stood for long at a point where two roads forked.

 

4) “I could not travel both and be one traveller”, Says the poet. What does he mean by this? What word expresses his regret about this?

Ans: “I could not travel both and be one traveler”. The poet laments saying that he was unable to go on both the streets and go through his entire time on earth as an explorer He realizes that one must have an objective throughout everyday life and to this end, one must settle on decisions. “Sorry” word expresses his regret about this.

 

5) Complete this English proverb. “You cannot have your cake and eat it too!”

6) So, what did the poet do? (See stanza 1. Refer to your answer to question 4)

Ans: The poet knows that he could not travel on both the roads and one must have a destination in life and he decides to choose which is less travelled.

 

7) The poet took the other road. Why did he do that?

Ans: The poet chose less travelled road because he didn’t want to follow others and dependent on them. Here poet wanted to have broad thinking to choose his path to gain success by himself.

 

8) What, had worn the other road more or less the same?

Ans: The poet was voyaging nobody had trampled on both of the two in light of the fact that the leaves that lay on the streets had not gotten dark from the track of anybody's strides.

 

9) Once the second road looked to him more attractive. Then both roads looked equally attractive. Explain this in your own words.

Ans: It was hard to settle on a decision in light of the fact that both the road seemed alluring to the poets. On a more profound level both the decisions throughout his life would give him what he needed from life-might be various things on various ways so he had thought about what things he needed more and pick in like manner.

 

10) The poet expresses a wish and a doubt, in these two sentences. Complete these sentences.

Ans: I will come back to travel on another road. 

But doubt if I should ever come back.

 

12) According to the poet, one should always take the road travelled by others before (True / Not True).

Ans: Not True.

C. Writing:

Read this dialogue and supply the missing words:

Amar           : I’m sorry I took science in high school

Akbar          : Why do you feel so sorry about it, friend? I also took a Science. I regret it a bit too.

Antony        : Yes, but why do you like it so much. Amar?

Amar           : I now know I don’t have the aptitude for Arts?

Akbar                   : So you regret now taking Arts, do you?

Antony        : Then why did you take Science?

Amar           : Very few students took Science then. So Science seemed attractive at that time.