Provision for the Journey
Provision for the Journey - meaning Summary
Love Replaces Dependence
The poem narrates a personal shift from dependence to self-sufficiency after losing a beloved's attention. The speaker first experiences the loss as fate and withdraws into austerity, rejecting food, drink, sleep, and social comforts. That process ultimately frees them: they can move through the world unburdened because what truly matters travels with them. The final claim is that love, internalized, becomes the sole indispensable provision on life’s journey.
Read Complete AnalysesI was to be weaned from the light of her eyes, They were to beautify my life no longer. What men call Fate, inexorable forever, I know it well: I stepped back in fright. Now I’d know no other happiness either. I began at once to wean myself from you, And you, you necessary Things, you too: Nothing seemed necessary but that gaze of hers. Wine’s glow, food’s enjoyment, sleep Comfort and friends, and other delights, I denied: there was little left to remove. Now I can travel through the world at ease: Whatever I need’s to be found on every side, And I bring the indispensable with me – Love.
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