I. Complete the summary of the poem by filling in the blanks.
{mistake, commitments, stay, wood, village, dark, belonged, see, deep, snow,
Strange, late evening, done, frozen lake}
After a long travel the poet entered a _____________. He wondered to whom the wood ____________. He realized that the owner of the wood lived in a
_____________. He thought that the owner would not be able to ________________ him stopping in his woods to watch _______________ fill the woods. The poet felt that the horse would think it very ________________to stop near the woods as he had never ____________. He was actually standing between the woods and __________________. The time was _________________. The horse indicated that the poet has made a _______________. by shaking its head. The poet felt that the woods are lovely, _________________and __________________. He suddenly realized that he had worldly ______________
which would not allow him to __________________ in the woods for a long time.
II. Give examples for the following figures of speech from the poem.
a) Alliteration-
b) Personification:
III. Answer In Short.
1.Who is the speaker in the poem?
2. Whom does the speaker refer to in the first stanza of the poem?
IV. Answer In Detail. answer any one.
1. Write a character sketch of the speaker of the poem. Who do you think he is and
where is he going? Use evidence from the text to support your ideas.
OR
2. The poet is aware of two choices. What are they? What choice does he make
ultimately? Why?
