explain the meaning of the following phrase by a yellow wood
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Answer:
yellow wood means a forest in autumn season where many dry leaves are on a road
Answer:
The symbolism of yellow has many possible interpretations in this poem.
As the previous educator mentioned, the narrator is reflecting on the road he did not choose that autumn morning. Yellow and gold are also colors associated with morning and the rising sun. The reference to "a yellow wood" can represent both the autumn leaves and the dappled, golden sunlight falling on the forest floor.
Mornings are usually metaphors for new possibilities and new beginnings. The narrator's ability to choose is associated with a time in which his life offered more than one possibility—each fresh and equally attractive:
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Like so many of us, he hoped for the chance to explore the other possibility: "Oh, I kept the first for another day!" But accepted that making one choice excludes the exploration of the other:
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
The narrator predicts that one day, "[s]omewhere ages and ages hence," during his "autumn" years, perhaps, he will remember his choice of the road "less traveled by," though it was "just as fair" as the other. The "difference" lies in the fact that his life would have been altogether different had he chosen the other path on that fateful morning.
Thus the "yellow wood" represents possibility and a new beginning.