Closed Path
Closed Path - meaning Summary
Renewal Beyond Perceived Limits
The speaker begins believing their journey has ended: strength gone, path closed, and retreat into obscurity imminent. A turn reveals an outside will or inner renewal that expands possibility. As old words and routes fade, fresh songs and a new country appear. The poem concerns hope and creative or spiritual resurgence, showing how perceived limits give way to unexpected renewal and new directions when one thought all was exhausted.
Read Complete AnalysesI thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity. But I find that thy will knows no end in me. And when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
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