In this excerpt from "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, which pair of lines casts doubt on the certainty the speaker felt whe
n choosing one
path over the other?
ent in the undergrowth;
st as fair.
bans the better claim,
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, 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.
path over the other?
ent in the undergrowth;
st as fair.
bans the better claim,
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, 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.
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bad-tempered and negative/grumpy type
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ill-humored, crusty, encrusted, crustlike, husky, hoarse, ill-humoured, crusted, curmudgeonly, gruff
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