: : Would someone give me your take on the above poem/ It is quoted in Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety (do not know how to underline here).
: : Thanks for your help.
: I was looking for the same. Actually I wanted to : find the whole poem if there is more. Is the title : the same? My interpretation is that this is about : aging and eventually death. He is willing to part : with the material things and even the physical, but : what is important is "what I myself have held" which : I think he is referring to his memories. "while the : Customs slept" I'm not sure but maybe this is a : referral to heaven's gates and having to enter just : like you have to enter a new country. I wonder if : wrote this poem in old age, because the comment, "for : I am There" seems to refer to being towards the end : of his life and having held on dearly to the important : memories in his life...which of course ties this quote : into the theme of this book. Would love to hear what : you thought. Hi! Well I think the way u explained this poem in those little sentences was very nice. But U know I still don't understand the first para! What is the menaing of "To time it never seems that he is brave"???? I don't get the first few lines at all!!! E-mail me ok!!