Notes Class 9 Chapter 3.3 Kumarbharati English Maharashtra Board

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“The Road Not Taken”

Warming Up! Activities

1. Choosing a Career After SSC Exams
2. After your SSC exams or results, you need to decide on a career. Think about these factors:
   • Is the option easy or difficult?
   • Your capability (what you’re good at).
   • Your likes and dislikes.
   • Friends’ decisions.
   • Parents’ profession.
   • Your skills or inborn talents.
   • Study the ‘Job Profile’ carefully.
   • Easy money.
   • Possible difficulties.
   • Your ultimate aim.
3. Use these points to make a web diagram for decision-making.

Situations of Choice

• Work in pairs or groups of four.
• Think of times when you have to choose between two things. Examples:
  • Small decisions: What to wear when going out.
  • Big decisions: Games vs. studies, confronting a friend, admitting mistakes.
• Discuss how to decide what to choose, how you feel when your decision is right, and how you feel when you regret it.

The Poem: “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

Stanza 1:

• Two roads split in a yellow wood.
• The poet felt sorry he couldn’t travel both roads.
• He stood for a long time, looking down one road as far as he could, until it bent and disappeared in the undergrowth (bushes).

Stanza 2:

• He chose the other road, which seemed just as good.
• It looked better because it was grassy and less worn (less used).
• But actually, both roads were worn about the same by travelers.

Stanza 3:

• That morning, both roads were covered with leaves no one had stepped on.
• He decided to save the first road for another day.
• But he doubted he’d ever return, as one path leads to another.

Stanza 4:

• In the future, he’ll tell this story with a sigh (emotion).
• Two roads split in a wood, and he took the less-traveled one.
• This choice made all the difference in his life.

Meanings:

• Diverge: Split and go in different directions.
• Wanted wear: Needed to be used or walked on.