The writer uses figurative language in the poem to get his point across. As an example he used crossroad as a metaphor in the poem, road is used as an extended metaphor. Crossroad is used as a metaphor of a choice we make in life. In the beginning the yellow wood is talking about autumn.
This could be a metaphor of making decisions during the fall of your life or when you get older. Another metaphor that he used to get his point across was when he said stuff about standing at the crossroad and looking as far as he could down both roads. Obviously he didn’t look down an actual road but he thought about which one would take him further in life. …show more content…
This poem honestly means a lot to me because I can relate to it in almost every aspect of my life. For me this poem means when you meet a decision in your life think about it long and hard because you will never be able to change what you decide. Sometimes you could of made the right decision in your life or that’s what you think at least. At times you could make a decision in your life and at the beginning you might think it was the right decision but down the road it could end up bad. Decisions could be at a different levels at times. Kind of like if you go to college or not or if your going to sell drugs but there at different levels and could have different