Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not 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;
Paraphrase: The poet was standing at a junction in a yellow forest where two roads separated in two different directions. The poet feels sorry that being the lonely traveller, he could not walk on both roads at the same time. He stood there for a long time looking at the road down as far as he could. The road then bent and disappeared from his eyes in bushes and the undergrowth.
(a) Why does the poet feel ‘sorry’?
(b) Where do the two roads diverge in?
(c) What is the mood of the poet in these lines?
(a) The poet feels sorry that he can’t travel on both the roads diverging in the forest before him.
(b) The two roads diverge in the wood where the leaves have turned yellow in the autumn.
(c) The mood of the poet appears to be serious and pensive.