Question 75
MediumOriginal questionTwo roads 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 ;_
_Then took the other, as 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,_
_And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had 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._
_I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages :
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
In the poem, the two roads stand for
Show the answer and explanation
Correct answer: B
Explanation
The speaker can take only one, cannot easily come back, and says the choice "has made all the difference".
That is true of choices in life, which is what the roads stand for.
Worth noting
A poem can describe a real scene and still use it as a symbol. The question asks what the roads stand for.
- Concept
- Understanding a symbol
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