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Read the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost.

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Read the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost.

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Read this poem. 
 
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.
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पाठ 2.1: Song of the Open Road - Brainstorming (A6) [पृष्ठ ९८]

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पाठ 2.1 Song of the Open Road
Brainstorming (A6) | Q (ii) | पृष्ठ ९८

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