The Road Not Taken - by Robert Frost

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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

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;

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 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.

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.

Vocabulary work: Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right.

1. Diverge(d)           a right to have something or get something from someone
2. Bend (bent)         to breathe out slowly and noisily, showing tiredness, sadness, etc.
3. Undergrowth       to (cause to) curve
4. Claim                  to follow a different direction
5. Sigh                    from this time
6. Hence                bushes, small trees and plants growing under the trees of a wood or
                              forest


What are the base-forms of these past participles used in the poem?

· Worn
· Trodden
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