Figurative Language

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.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

In this poem, hyperbole is used to express that the poet sadness that he was unable to travel on both roads at the same time. He decided to travel on one road and kept the other for another day yet knowing that he would not come back. Therefore, he wanted to emphasize on how hard it is to choose which road to travel and that he would not be able to come back one day as one road lead to another road.

I like this poem as it depicts a person's life where at one point, we have to make a decision to choose what we want to do and where we want to be. For example, in our secondary schools, we have to choose what subjects we want to take even though we want to take all so that we can learn everything and hoping that in the future, we can do the other subjects but knowing that we might not have the time to do so. Life is a matter of choice, one choice lead to another and another and you might not be able to come back to the same choice as you will progress further with each choice. We must be prepare to face whatever decision we have to make and the hardships we have to suffer.