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“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.” (a) Name the poem and the poet of these lilies. (b) Why did the p...

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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.”

(a) Name the poem and the poet of these lilies.

(b) Why did the poet look down as far as he could?

(c) What do the roads represent in these lines?

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(a) The poem is ‘The Road Not Taken’ and the poet is Robert Frost.

(b) The poet is at a point where he cannot travel on both the roads and has to make a decision. He looks down one as far as he can to help him make the decision.

(c) The roads represent the choices that one has to take in life.

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