Students can Download English Poem 6 The Road not taken Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes Pdf, Activity, KSEEB Solutions for Class 7 English helps you to revise the complete Karnataka State Board Syllabus and to clear all their doubts, score well in final exams.
Karnataka State Syllabus Class 7 English Prose Chapter 6 The Road not taken
The Road not taken Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes
A. Speaking, Reading and Writing:
Question 1.
Two words catch your eye in the first line. They bring before you a beautiful picture. What words are they?
Answer:
- diverged
- yellow wood.
Question 2.
Where and when does a forest turn golden yellow?
Answer:
The forest turns golden yellow in autumn or fall.
Question 3.
The poet stood for long at a point where two roads forked (True / Not True)
Answer:
True
Question 4.
“I could not travel both And be one traveler”. Says the poet. What does he mean by this? What word expresses his regret about this?
Answer:
Sorry – This word expresses his regret. “I could not travel both and be are traveler”. Here he expresses it is impossible to walk down two roads at once or at the same time and he has to choose one road.
Question 5.
In life, sometimes, you are given two choices. But you are to make only one choice. You can not have both things. Can you give an example of this? Try.
Answer:
‘Choice’ the word means to select one among all. If we have both there is no place for choice at all. Whenever we are asked to make choice there is no question of selecting both. So choosing anyone and leaving the other to someone is definitely a choice.
Question 6.
Complete this English proverb
Answer:
“You cannot have your cake and eat it too!”
Question 7.
So, what did the poet do?
Answer:
The poet came to a fork in a path in the woods. It is fall and the leave are turning yellow. He’s unsure which way to go, and wishes he could go both ways. He looks down one path as far as he can see, but decides to take the other.
Question 8.
The poet took the other road. Why did he do that?
Answer:
The poet took the other road thinking that the path he decided to take is not quite as worn as the other one.
Question 9.
What had worn the other road more or less the same?
Answer:
The path had worn the fallen leaves on the other (first) road looked pretty fresh as the second one.
Question 10.
Once the second road looked to him more attractive. Then both roads looked equally attractive. Explain this In your own words.
Answer:
He decided to take the second path thinking that it is not quite as worn as the first one. But he found that really, the paths are about the same, and the fallen leaves on both look pretty fresh.
Question 11.
The poet expresses a wish and a doubt, in these two sentences. Complete these sentences.
Answer:
I will come back another day. But should if I’ ever be able to come back and take the other path.
Question 12.
According to the poet, one should always take the road traveled by others before. (True./Not True) Explain this in your own words.
Answer:
True because the one you the experiences of the otherwise people or if you know the things which have already taken place will help us to follow and repeat the same mistakes.
C. Writing:
1. Read this dialogue and supply the missing words:
- Amar: I’m sorry I took Science in high school.
- Akbar: Why do you feel so bad about it, friend? I also took the Science. I regret it a bit too.
- Anthony: Yes, but why do you regret it so much, Amar?
- Amar: I now know I don’t have the aptitude for Science?
- Akbar: So you regret not taking Arts, do you?
- Anthony: Then why did you take science?
- Amar: Very few students took Science then. So Science seemed attractive at that time.
The Road not taken Summary in English
Our speaker Robert Trost, travelling all alone came to a fork in a path in the woods. Its fall and the leaves are turning colours. He is unsure which way to go and wishes he could go both ways.
He looks down one path as far as he can see, but then he decides to take the other. He thinks the path he decides to take is not quite as worn as the other one, but really, the paths are about the same, and the fall leaves on both look pretty fresh. The speaker reflects on how he plans to take the road that he didn’t take another day but suspects that he probably won’t ever come back.
Instead, far off in the future, he will be talking about how his decision was final and life-changing. The poet presented the difficulty of making a choice in life. We cannot travel all the roads available to us.
We have to make a choice. The dilemma faced by the poet in making his choice in the dilemma that we will face at some point in our life. Only the time will tell whether the choice was right or wrong.
The Road not taken Summary in Kannada
