Answer:
Go in to more school and eventually get a job that won't pay off my student loans and die.
Explanation:
C. They love to fish even if unsuccessful.
They refer to the emotional depths and heights of romantic relationships.
The correct answer is metaphor.
A metaphor is a rhetorical figure of speech where two or more things are symbolically compared, without using the words such as like or as (because that would be a simile). This whole poem is symbolical/metaphorical - it talks about the passage of time and how everything is transient and fleeting.