What is some figurative language in poem “The road not taken”?
For figurative language, proceed slowly through the piece asking yourself “why this word, this phrase?” line by line. The successful figures were those that you just swallowed whole as you read them. The unsuccessful figures are those that brought you to a puzzled halt with ‘huh?’ on your lips. E.g., the first figure is ‘yellow wood.’ This forces the reader to come up with an image that incorporates ‘yellow’ and ‘wood,’ and the only way that phrase makes sense is if you imagine an autumnal hardwood forest, the leaves blazing ‘yellow’ before they fall. You saw that and went on to the next successful figure. ‘Sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler’, a phrasing that says the speaker recognizes the impossibility of generating doppelgangers at will, to pursue all of the possible branchings from a choice. Et cetera. Take your time with the piece, and find them all. —————– The mood of the piece is a matter of opinion. I find it ‘bemused by my own personal history, and aw
