What is some figurative language in poem "The road not taken"?

Question:What is some figurative language in this poem like metaphors, personifications, similes, and alliterations.

Also what is the mood of this poem

The Road not taken

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, 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 marked 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.

By Robert Frost.

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Also what is the mood of this poem

The Road not taken

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, 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 marked 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.

By Robert Frost.

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.

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The mood of the piece is a matter of opinion. I find it 'bemused by my own personal history, and aware of how my personal history has been, is being, and will be written by me.'

You will see other opinions on this matter. A LOT of people will focus on those frickin' roads, as if the choice of road were the central concern. Frost takes some pains to point to that the roads are NOT greatly different, one from the other, and then wistfully notes that this minor choice of road in this instant is unlikely to be proven against the road that is taken. The choice is made, and the true value of the choice can only be guessed at.

The last stanza, though, is kinda funny. The speaker will later claim that that choice (whose true value is purely speculative) is why he's the wild and crazy rebel he is now. That is, he will use this incident as excuse or explanation of what he becomes later. It's a very sophisticated demonstration of self-awareness by a man who knows himself to be a bullshit artist.

The path one chooses to follow in life.

Ahem....duh!

Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
= personification, a road can't want anything

And both that morning equally lay
= again, personification

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
= exaggeration