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And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the ¿rst for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.
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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.
Robert Frost

1. Vocabulary in use

i. Following words describe either of the two roads the poet is talking
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about in the poem. Fill the table below choosing appropriate word/s
given below.
bent in the undergrowth, fair, better, grassy, worn, trodden black, less travelled

The ¿rst road The second road

ii. Match the following words with their meanings.

Words Meanings
a. diverged i. a deep and long breath
b. wood ii. walked on

c. undergrowth iii. branched away
d. claim iv. demand
e. sigh v. forest

f. trodden vi shrubs; a mass of bushes
g. bent vii. from now on
h. hence viii. curved
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