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3. Is the speaker discussing something that happened in the past,
something that happened now, or something that will happen in
the future? For this poem, your answer will not be the same for
all stanzas.
4. In the second stanza, the speaker discusses his decision. He
makes a statement about the scene in front of him, and then
corrects it. Which lines show the statement and which show the
correction?
5. Does stanza three indicate that one road is visibly preferable to
the other? When the speaker leaves “the first for another day,”
he is already pretty sure he will never be back to walk that path.
What does the stanza suggest about the nature of our choices
in life?
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