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Why does line 60403 "Y' improve in Wit just as you do in Grace" contain an abbreviation?

In the seventeenth century "you" or "ye" was commonly spelled "y."

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Because the poet wrote in longhand, the abbreviation was an attempt to save copying time.

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To form alliteration with "your" (line 84766) and "you" (line 60403).

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To make the line fit the poem's meter.

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To make it evident that a new subject is being addressed.

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Solution

The correct option is C To make the line fit the poem's meter.
The line 18 of the poem uses 'Y' just to make the line fit the poem's meter. the poem describes the attempt of the speaker that the theater's attempt to improve society's morality has failed. Thus, option D is the correct answer.

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Q. The tone of lines, "And run so very evenly your Race, Y' improve in Wit just as you do in Grace," can best be described as?

The Road Not Taken is biographical poem. Therefore, some personal biographical information is relevant to the deeper understanding of the poem we have read. Go to www.encarta.com and complete the following worksheet about Robert Frost.

(a) What “momentous decision” was made by Frost in 1912?

(b) How old was he when he had to make this decision?

(d) Was the “road” Frost had taken easy “to travel”?

(e) Do you think he wrote “The Road Not Taken” before sailing from the USA to England or after?

(f) Can you quote a line or two from the poem that can support your answer?

(g) Do you think Frost finally became popular in America as a poet?

You partner and you may now be able to answer these questions.

(i) Who is the speaker in the poem? Who are the people the speaker meets? What are they doing?

(ii) What wishes does the child in the poem make? Why does the child want to be a hawker, a gardener, or a watchman? Pick out the lines in each stanza, which tell us this.

(iii) From the way the child envies the hawker, the gardener and the watchman, we can guess that there are many things the child has to do, or must not do.

Make a list of the DOs and DON’Ts that the child doesn’t like.

The first line is done for you.

The child must	The child must not
Come home at a fixed time.	Get his clothes dirty in the dust.
__________________	__________________
__________________	__________________
__________________	__________________

Now add to the list your own complaints about the things you have to do, or must not do.

Answer the following questions.

a) “…But up-and-down brushin’

And pokin’ and fussin’

Didn’t seem worth the time - I could bite!”

What do these lines convey?

b) Why did the poet go to the dentist? How could she have avoided it?

c) “If you got a tooth, you got a friend”. What do you understand from the line?

d) With reference to the poem, how can you look after your teeth?

e) Given an appropriate proverb that conveys the message that this poem carries.

How does the poet imagine her to be, after death? Does he think of her as a person living in a very happy state (a ‘heaven’)? Or does he see her now as a part of nature? In which lines of the poem do you find your answer?

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Why does line 60403 "Y' improve in Wit just as you do in Grace" contain an abbreviation?

The correct option is C To make the line fit the poem's meter.The line 18 of the poem uses 'Y' just to make the line fit the poem's meter. the poem describes the attempt of the speaker that the theater's attempt to improve society's morality has failed. Thus, option D is the correct answer.

The correct option is C To make the line fit the poem's meter.
The line 18 of the poem uses 'Y' just to make the line fit the poem's meter. the poem describes the attempt of the speaker that the theater's attempt to improve society's morality has failed. Thus, option D is the correct answer.