The Open Road by Walt Whitman
Summary: In The Open Road by Walt Whitman, the speaker talks about an almost unrestricted journey on a road
Characters: The speaker
Section 1:
- The speaker begins a journey without anything worrying his soul
- The speaker has no health problems and thinks about where to go bound only to the ends of the world
- The speaker follows a path unrestricted to him
- The speaker seems to say that just his existence alone is good-fortune and that he needs nothing else
- The speaker takes the "open road" feeling strong and without the need for anything in particular
Other Notes:
- This road could be a road to a journey within his mind and may not be just restricted to world-bound traveling
- The poet might be inferring that life is a journey, where our travels are bounded only by our own abilities to cope and "travel the open road"
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