Question

why does the poet call the wood,yellow wood?

Answer 1

the poet call the wood , yellow wood because yellow wood symbolises the autumn season.Autumn corresponds with old age.The poet could be symbolically talking about the later stages of life.
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Answer 2

Yellow wood refers to the Jungle with decomposing leaves shed from the trees.

Its stand for the world were people have been living for long