Share your choices and decisions with your partner.

Answer:

Question 3:

Have you made choices that are acceptable and less ‘risky’ or have you followed the
beaten track? Why?
Answer:
A model answer has been provided for students’ reference.
It is strongly recommended that students prepare the answer on their own.

I have always followed the challenging way to achieve the most difficult of goals. I
always believed in the fact that a victory is worth it if achieved with a lot of struggle,
after overcoming various hurdles and obstacles. I never found interest in the easy
way to achieve success in a task. Every task is worth a competition.
Question 5(b):

What choice did the poet have to make?

Answer:

The poet had to choose between two roads in the forest.

Question 5(c):

Did he regret his choice? Why/why not?

Answer:

The answer to this question is ambiguous. The mention of a “sigh” indicates that the
poet regretted his choice. However, the satisfied expression in the line, “And that has
made all the difference” compels us to think otherwise. So, it is very difficult to
understand the mental state of the poet.
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Question 7(a):

In the poem, a traveler comes to a fork in the road and needs to decide which way to
go to continue his journey. Figuratively the choice of the road denotes
______________________.

(i) the tough choices people make the road of life

(ii) the time wasted on deciding what to do

(iii) life is like a forest

(iv) one must travel a lot to realize his dreams

Answer:

(i) the tough choices people make the road of life

Question 7(b):
The poet writes, ‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.’  The word diverged means

_______________.

(i) appeared

(ii) curved

(iii) branched off

(iv) continued on
Answer:

(iii) branched off

Question 7(c):

The tone of the speaker in the first stanza is that of ______________.

(i) excitement

(ii) anger

(iii) hesitation and thoughtfulness

(iv) sorrow
Answer:

(iii) hesitation and thoughtfulness

Question 8(v):
The poet says “I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.”
What is ‘the difference’ that the poet mentions?
Answer:

The difference is probably the degree of success which he has achieved and the
amount of happiness and fulfilment he must have felt by travelling the unexplored
way.
Question 8(iv):

Does the speaker seem happy about his decision?

Answer:

There is a certain ambiguity here. The speaker seems happy and satisfied when he
says – “And that has made all the difference.” However, the sigh just before this
makes us question his happiness.
Question 8(iii:

Which road would you choose? Why?

Answer:
A sample answer has been provided for students’ reference.
It is strongly recommended that students prepare the answer on their own.

I would always choose the path not tread upon before me. I like adventure and would
want to explore new facets. I am always enthusiastic for venturing into something
absolutely new, uncommon and unknown to the rest of the world.
Question 8(ii):

Which road does the speaker choose?

Answer:

The speaker chose the road which was less used. The road he chose seemed to
tread upon lesser than the other. His road seems to be grassy as well while the other
was not.
Question 8(i):

Describe the two roads that the author finds.

Answer:

Both the roads were covered with undergrowth. The one which the poet took was
“grassy” and apparently less used and thus, wanted wear.
Question 9:
Find the rhyme scheme of the poem.
Answer:

Rhyme scheme in a poem is the pattern of rhyme formed in between the lines. It can
also be explained as the pattern of end rhymes or lines. A rhyme scheme gives the
scheme of the rhyme; a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem (the end words).
It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme.

The rhyme scheme of the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost is a, b, a, a, b.

For instance,

I shall be telling this with a sigh a

Somewhere ages and ages hence: b
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- a
I took the one less travelled by, a
And that has made all the difference. b

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Question 10:
Fill in the blanks to complete the following paragraph that deals with the theme of the
poem. Use the words given in the box below:

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about the ___________that one
makes in life. It tells about a man who comes to a ______________in the road he is
travelling upon. He feels ____________that he cannot travel ________paths as he
must choose one. Frost uses this fork in the road to represent a point in the man’s
life where he has to choose the ____________he wishes to take in life. As he thinks
about his __________he looks down one path as far as he can see trying to
________________ what life will be like if he walks that path. He then gazes at the
other _________and decides the outcome of going down that path would be just as
___________. At this point he concludes that the trail that has been less travelled on
would be more _________ when he reaches the end of it. The man then decides that
he will save the other path for another day, even though he knows that one path
leads to another and that he won’t get a _____________ to go back. The man then
says that he will be telling this story with a “sigh” someday in the future suggesting
that he will ________what life would have been like if he had chosen the more
walked path even though the path he chose has made all the difference.
 decision sorry foresee choices

pleasant direction fork trail

rewarding chance wonder both

Answer:
The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about the  choices  that one
makes in life. It tells about a man who comes to a fork  in the road he is travelling
upon. He feels sorry  that he cannot travel both  paths as he must choose one. Frost
uses this fork in the road to represent a point in the man’s life where he has to
choose the direction  he wishes to take in life. As he thinks about his decision  he
looks down one path as far as he can see trying to foresee  what life will be like if he
walks that path. He then gazes at the other trail  and decides the outcome of going
down that path would be just as pleasant . At this point he concludes that the trail
that has been less travelled on would be more rewarding  when he reaches the end
of it. The man then decides that he will save the other path for another day, even
though he knows that one path leads to another and that he won’t get a  chance  to go
back. The man then says that he will be telling this story with a “sigh” someday in the
future suggesting that he will wonder  what life would have been like if he had chosen
the more walked path even though the path he chose has made all the difference.
Question 11:

Roads are fascinating as metaphors for life, change, journeys, partings, adventure,
etc. or simply as roads. This is probably why they, and all their attendant images,
have permeated art, literature and song. In the poem, Frost uses the fork in the road
as a metaphor for the choices we make in life. Thus the roads are, in fact, two
alternative ways of life. What other nouns could be used to represent life?
 River
 ________________
 ________________
 ________________
 ________________
Answer:
Pointers have been provided for students’ reference.
It is strongly recommended that students prepare the answer on their own.
  River
 Brook
 Moon
 Rose
 Candle, etc.
Question 12:

In groups of six, select, write the script of and present a skit that demonstrates
decision making and conflict resolution. Follow the steps given below:
 choices to be made
 options to be considered
 the influence of others
 the decisions/actions taken
 the immediate and future consequences of the decision.
Answer:
This question is to be answered on the basis of your own understanding, experience
and thoughts. It is strongly recommended that you prepare the solution on your own.
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