“The Road Not Taken”
1. What
makes the poem’s persona (speaker) choose the road he takes?
2. According
to the persona, what will he likely not ever do, even though he’d like to?
“Mr. Flood’s Party”
3. Why
does Mr. Flood go to town?
4. Who
does Mr. Flood meet on the road back from town? (Caution! Trick question)
“Hay for Horses”
5. The
persona in this poem first “bucked” hay when he was seventeen. He doesn’t like
doing it. Why has he kept doing it for fifty-one years?
