Multiple choice

What does the poet mean when he says 'how way leads on to way'?

Directions: Read the following poem carefully and answer the question.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, 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 travelled by,
And that has made all the difference. 

                                               Robert Frost

  1. The multiple paths before us will take us nowhere.

  2. It is difficult to choose the right path in life.

  3. We all have to take a decision as to which way to be pursued in life.

  4. One path leads to another and that again leads to yet another and so on, as we move ahead in life.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The poet's line 'knowing how way leads on to way' expresses a philosophical insight about life's journey - each decision leads to another, creating a chain of interconnected choices. Just as one road leads to another and that to yet another, each life decision opens new paths and closes others, making return impossible. Option D captures this cascading effect of life choices.

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