Question

Select the correct answer.

Read the last stanza of Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken.” Why is it significant that the two roads diverged?
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 traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

from "The Road Not Taken"
by Robert Frost

A.
The speaker is recalling, "with a sigh," how difficult it had been for him to choose the more traveled or the less traveled of the two roads. The forked road is a metaphor for the inherent duality in the natural world.
B.
One of the forks in the road represents the speaker in his youth when he chose a road; the other stands for the speaker "ages and ages hence." The forked road is a metaphor for the many contradictions found in nature.
C.
The speaker is relieved that he chose the road of moral living over one of temptation and ruin, which would have come from the other path.
D.
The speaker is imagining what it might be like to describe his choice of a life path after he has taken that path to close to its end.

Answer 1

C.

The speaker is relieved that he chose the road of moral living over one of temptation and ruin, which would have come from the other path.

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

C

Step-by-step explanation:

He is saying that there are 2 roads leading away from a critical point in everyone's life.

He is glad that he has chosen the one that is less travelled which means he has gotten what he could from the life he lived.

Jesus says much the same thing in Matthew 7:13 and 14. One way leads to destruction, the other is the righteous path.

I think Frost had this in mind when he said that the less travelled path has made all the difference to him, because he is not lead by other people.

I think given what I have written, I believe that C is the correct answer. I don't think the metaphor means anything to do with nature. It has to do with moral behavior.