is it Sokuhi Shigan? i am not sure if this is the anime that you are looking for
They are not happy about engaging in trade with humans, due to how things went with Mr. Jones.
This poem is an example of an extended metaphor.
A metaphor is a comparison between two things that are not alike. In this case, a road and life are being compared. In this extended metaphor, the speaker never actually makes a direct comparison between life and the road. In other words, he does not say life is a road. Yet the entire poem implies it.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took...
Roac son of Carc.
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