English Module I

Passage 2. THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better clairn,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the assing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that iorning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come bcick.. :
I shatt be telling this with a sigh -r

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -

And that has made all the diffirence.

(from The Poetrv of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem)

1. Why does the author say that, "I shall be telling this with a sigh/Somewhere ages
and ages hence"?

a) When he is older he will not believe that he even hesitated before 0 0 0 0

taking the second path. ab cd
b) He will be too old to remember the incident at all.
c) He will go back and travel the first road.
d) He will wonder what was down the path he didn't travel.

2. The speaker in this poem is most likely

a) a young child c) a young adult 0000

ab
b) a ghost d) an old man c d

3. If the poet had taken the first road, his life would most likely have been

a) better t c) different 0000

b) worse d) more unusual ab c d

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