I Stood Upon a Highway
I Stood Upon a Highway - meaning Summary
Refusing Others' Gods
The speaker describes standing on a highway where numerous peddlers offer different images and versions of God. Each vendor advertises a preferred divine pattern, but the speaker rejects all such packaged beliefs, insisting on keeping their own conception of the divine. The poem presents a clear act of refusal and individual spiritual autonomy, portraying organized or marketed certainties as insufficient or unwanted by the solitary thinker.
Read Complete AnalysesI stood upon a highway, And, behold, there came Many strange peddlers. To me each one made gestures, Holding forth little images, saying, "This is my pattern of God. Now this is the God I prefer." But I said, "Hence! Leave me with mine own, And take you yours away; I can't buy of your patterns of God, The little gods you may rightly prefer."
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