Bring on the tough stuff - there’s not just one right answer.
- How does the speaker use personification to help create a kind of symmetry between himself and the natural world?
- What does that "path of gold" appear to symbolize in terms of a world of men? What's the point of using figurative language like this?
- What do you think is the overall message of the poem? Has the speaker come to realize anything new in terms of his relationship?
- What kind of mood does the poem's rhyme scheme help to create? What's the point of all those perfect rhymes?
- Why does the speaker have such a pressing need for a "world of men" by the end of the poem? Is he just dying to watch that football game on Sunday, or is there something else going on here?