Lesson 2.01 Practice 2

Lesson 2.01 Practice 2

Practice paraphrasing Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken."

Example 1

Stanza One:
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;

How would you paraphrase this stanza?

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Example 2

Stanza One:
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,

How would you paraphrase this stanza?

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Example 3

Stanza One:
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden 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.

How would you paraphrase this stanza?

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Example 4

Stanza One:
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.

How would you paraphrase this stanza?

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