Hermann Hesse

Alone

Alone - meaning Summary

Responsibility of the Solitary Journey

Hesse's poem argues that life offers many paths but they all lead to a single, inevitable truth: the ultimate moments and difficult tasks must be faced alone. Companionship and learning help along the way, yet the poem stresses personal responsibility and inner confrontation. The repeated image of roads underscores that external choices converge on an inward journey where each person must take their final steps by themselves.

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Across the Earth are leading many a road and bend, yet all are speeding to the selfsame end. Be you riding or driving as twosome or three, the last of your steps belongs but to thee. For skill's not as valid, nor all that is known, as tackling the difficult stuff by your own. Alone They stretch across this earth-ball: roads without number or name, but all are alike: their goal is the same. You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; the final step you must walk alone. No wisdom is better than this, when known: that every hard thing is done alone.

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