Yellowwood, certain type of plant or depiction of woods in the fall?

What does this mean?

In the end, the narrator regrets the path he took. A common misconception from the poem. Most people believe the opposite.

Difference does not necessary mean something positive.

He will be telling this story with a sense of regret.

The narrator doubts their choice of the road they picked. It does not seem like the right choice.

Seems like he is trying to be optimistic, the other road can be taken another day.

Gives a dark image with black steps.

The other road seemed just as fine as the first.

Expresses some type of regret on not being able to see what both paths have to offer

Father was like a killing machine.

What is this?

Seems she is struggling with where her lineage starts throughout the poem.

She seems to be disassociating herself from her father and his German lineage. Her father may have scared her, like a Jew would be afraid of a German in this time period.

She seems to have hatred towards Germans because of her father.

Although she is of German descent, she has Polish friends. She does not discriminate.

German descent, her father must have taught her some German.

Descriptive scene of nature.

First mention of "Daddy", and you already are introduced to a dark relationship with Daddy.

This line shows Plath belittling herself.

Who is the King? The fly? A man? A fellow friend?

Even death is not predictable. Things can still continue to be present and surprise you long after life.

The fly and the narrator become the same person in this last line.

Nature tends to grow silent before a storm comes. Most animals can sense an oncoming storm, yet this fly is present.

The narrator is aware of their surroundings as they claim to die

Every second line does not contain a dash

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