NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Beehive Poem 1 The Road not taken

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Beehive Poem Chapter 1 The Road not taken are part of NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English. Here we have given NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Beehive Poem Chapter 1 The Road not taken.

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Beehive Poem 1 The Road not taken

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow each :

I. 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 ; (Page 15)

Questions

1. Where did the two roads diverge ?
2. Why did the poet feel sorry ?
3. Why did the poet stand long ?
4. Give the meaning of ‘diverged’.

Answers

1. The two roads diverged in a yellow wood.
2. The poet felt sorry that he could not travel on both the roads.
3. The poet stood long trying to see one of the roads as far as he could see it.
4. It is ‘branched off.

II. Then took the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear ;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same. (page 15)

Questions

1. What do the words ‘the other’ refer to ?
2. Why did the poet choose it ?
3. How had they been worn ?
4. Give the antonym of ‘fair’.

Answers

1. The words ‘the other’ refer to one of the two roads which the poet found in a forest. It (‘the other’) was the road which he finally took.
2. The poet chose it because it seemed to be better. It seemed more grassy and less worn.
3. These roads had been worn by the feet of the people who walked over them.
4. It is ‘unfair’.

III. And both that morning 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 back. (Page 15) (Imp.)

Questions

1. Who are the ‘both’ ?
2. Why did he keep the first for another day ?
3. What did he doubt ?
4. Give the meaning of ‘trodden’.

Answers

1. The ‘both’ refers to the two roads which the poet had found in a forest.
2. He could travel only on one of the two roads. He liked both of the roads. But he decided to travel on the second and keep the first for another day.
3. He doubted whether he would really be able to travel on the first road. The second road would connect him to many new roads.
4. It means ‘walking with heavy steps’.

IV. I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence ;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference. (page 15) ( V. Imp.) (CBSE 2017)

Questions

1. Which road did the poet choose ?
2. What made all the difference in poet’s life ?
3. What does the choice made by the poet indicate about his personality in the poem ?
4. Find a word in the extract that means ‘External in a different direction’.

Answers

1. The poet took the second road which had been less travelled by.
2. The poet wanted to take the first road first and later the second. But he couldn’t do so. This made all the difference in his life.
3. This ‘choice’ shows that the poet is wise, rational and careful of his choices in life. It is a different matter if he is or is not successful.
4. ‘diverged’.

TEXTUAL QUESTIONS
(Page 16)

Thinking About the Poem
I. 1. Where does the traveller find himself ? What problem does he face ?
2. Discuss what these phrases mean to you.

1. a yellow wood
2. it was grassy and wanted wear
3. the passing there
4. leaves no step had trodden black
5. how way leads on to way

3. Is there any difference between the two roads as the poet describes them

1. in stanzas two and three ?
2. in the last two lines of the poem ?

4. What do you think the last two lines of the poem mean ? (Looking back, does the poet regret his choice of accept it ?)

Answers
1. The traveller finds himself at an intersection of two roads in a forest. His problem is that it is not easy to decide which ‘road’ he should take.
2.

1. A forest at the time of autumn.
2. It had grass grown on it and wanted the people to walk on it.
3. It means walking on the road.
4. The leaves which had not been walked over.
5. How one road leads to another

3.

1. In stanzas two and three there is no difference between the two roads.
2. In the last two lines there is the difference. It is seen in ‘I took the one less travelled by’.

4. The last two lines contain the theme of the poem. These mean that the poet chose one kind of career, though he wanted to choose the other. And this had made all the difference in his life. He now thinks that if he had taken the other one, life would, perhaps, have been different.

II. 1. Have you ever had to make a difficult choice (or do you think you will have difficult choices to make) ? How will you make the choice (for what reasons) ?
2. After you have made a choice do you always think about what might have been, or do you accept the reality ?

Answers
1. Yes, I had to make a difficult choice once. It was very difficult to make it. But I had to do it. I had to go out to Chandigarh for an urgent piece of work on one weekend. But I had to postpone it. I thought that if the clerk would not be there what would happen. The next day was a holiday.

I would make the choice for various reasons. These would be like, peace of mind, contentment, livelihood, absence of risk or danger, etc.

2. I accept the reality after making a choice. Sometimes, I face odds or big difficulties. I think of what might have been if this thing had not come on the way. A person really tends to think of the choice made. It happens when one faces problems in the present. It is universal. Problems do keep coming. They make men think of their choices. These may be right or wrong. But choices can’t be redone.

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