Multiple choice

The poet could not travel both the roads because

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. he wanted to take the one that was less travelled

  2. he wanted to take the one travelled by most people

  3. one person cannot take two roads at the same time

  4. he was not interested in taking both the roads
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The poet explicitly states 'And sorry I could not travel both / And be one traveller.' This indicates the fundamental constraint that a single person ('one traveller') cannot physically take two different paths simultaneously - it's an existential limitation of being an individual.

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