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The Theme / Central Idea (O WHERE
ARE YOU GOING)
A life of effort and struggle is
the best. We should work hard and try to succeed. This poem is based on a
dialogue between two imaginary persons named as Reader and Rider, Fearer and
Farer and Hearer and Horror.
The reader tries to stop a rider
from going on a dangerous journey. He tries to frighten him by telling him,
that the way is full of trials and troubles. He says that there is a fatal
valley, a dunghill, a big gap, and darkness. There is lack of things. He would
have to walk on rough grass and stones. Then he reminds him of a ghost in the
thick trees. He tells the rider that he would face diseases. But the rider says
that troubles are for those who are afraid of them. The brave men face them and
leave them behind for the coward.
The way to glory, success, prosperity
and happiness is very vague and uncertain but it can be paved through with
courage steadfastness.
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