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Which of the following inferences about the speaker is best supported by the first stanza?

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;
Answer choices for the above question

A. The speaker prefers country life over city life.

B. The speaker thinks long and hard about his life’s choices before he makes them.

C. The speaker doesn’t like weeds.

D. The speaker is lonely for someone else.

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B. The speaker thinks long and hard about his life’s choices before he makes them.
Whereas most people would probably pick one road or the other without much thought, here, the speaker stops and thinks about which road would be better, about the philosophy of it all.
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