Question

Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow.

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden *****,

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

doubted if I should ever come back.

(i) What lay equally that morning?

(ii) What had not been trodden *****?

(iii) What did the poet keep for another day?

(iv) Why did the poet doubt that he would ever come back?

Answer 1

(i) The two roads that diverged in a wood.

(ii) The leaves that lay on the road.

(iii) The poet kept the first road for another day.

(iv) The poet knew that one way leads to another and so on, and it would be unlikely that he would come back to the same spot.