![]() Akbar: So you regret now taking Arts, -do you?.Amar: I now know I don’t have the aptitude for Arts?.Antony: Yes, but why do you like it so much.Akbar: Why do you feel so sorry about it, friend? I also took a Science.Amar: I’m sorry I took science in high school. ![]() Read this dialogue and supply the missing words In the same way, a poet in the future feels his life would have been easier, he would have been more comfortable, richer, or happier had he chosen the other road.ġ. We keep thinking about how things would have been different had we made another choice. But doubt if once a certain direction has been chosen in life it is impossible to turn back.Īccording to the poet, one should always take the road travelled by others before Explain this in your own words.Īll human beings are, at some time or other, dissatisfied with the choices we have made.I will come back wishing to keep the other road for another day.I will come back to travel on another road. The poet expresses a wish and a doubt, in these two sentences. On a deeper level both the choices in his life would give him what he wanted from life-may be different things on different paths so he had considered what things he wanted more and choose accordingly. Traveller found it difficult to make a choice because both the roads appeared attractive to him. Then both roads looked equally attractive. Once the second road looked to him more attractive. The Passing there had worn them really about the same. On a particular morning on which he was travelling no one had trodden on either of the two because the leaves that lay on the roads had not become black from the tread of anyone’s footsteps. What, had worn the other road more or less the same? The other path was more used and so had less appeal for die poet, who is of independent thinking and does not want to follow the crowd. The poet took the other less used road because it needed more people to travel on it. The word ‘sorry’ shows the poet’s regret. Poet regrets saying that he could not travel on both the roads and spend his whole life as a traveller He knows that one must have a destination in life and to this end, one must make choices. He looked down one road as far as he could see till a point where it bent and he could use no further. There were two roads feeing the poet and he had to make a choice He stood at the fork for a long time trying to decide. “You cannot have your cake and eat it too!” Can you give an example of this? Try.Īt a certain point in life, we will start working at that stage of life we will not be to give to time to maybe other sectors or parts of life such as family friends, and other personal things so when you are earning you can by default not give time to all other things.Ĭomplete this English proverb. In life, sometimes, you are given two choices. What does he mean by this? What word expresses his regret about this? “I could not travel both And be one traveller”, Says the poet. The poet stood for long at a point where two roads forked. In the forest, during autumn season leaves turn from green to yellow which is a spectacularly beautiful season. Where and when does a forest turn golden yellow? ![]() It is the autumn season as the leaves on the trees have turned yellow gives us a beautiful picture. The poet stands in a place where the road he is travelling divides into two, as he stands at cross roads in his life. Two words catches our eyes are two roads diverge and yellow wood. They bring before you a beautiful picture. In this write up, the value of the game considers the lexical choices in the poem " The Road Not Taken‛ by Robert Frost in the following categories: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, lexical categories such as synonymy, antagonymy, contradiction and their significance or effects in the poem.Two words catch your eye in the first line. Poets, particularly modern ones, have successfully freed themselves from constraints of what is so called ‚poetic language (Sharma, 2009: 31). ![]() Each register has its own characteristics style with certain lexical and grammatical choices. A piece of work cannot be properly understood without a thorough knowledge of the language, which is its medium of expression. It seeks to account for the interpretative effects of a text through close study of its linguistic detail, such as syntactic structuring, semantic deviation, deixis, modality, etc. Stylistics is the study of style of language in literature. This paper attempts to analyse the Lexical Choices in Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken poem from the perspectives of stylistics. ![]()
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