Poetic Appreciation Song Of The Open Road 

Read the extract carefully and write an appreciation of the poem considering the following points.

✳️About the poet and the title
✳️The theme
✳️ Poetic style, Language, poetic devices.
✳️ Special feature 
✳️Values 
✳️Your opinion about the poem


The poem ‘Song of the Open Road’ is taken from the well known poetic volume ‘Leaves of Grass’ by Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman is the pioneer of the poetic form Free verse that's why he is called the father of free verse. The title of the poem is significant and apt because the road signifies the mobility. 
The present poem is a beautiful fusion of human feelings like softness of heart, self awareness and liberty. The Poet used the simple language to elaborate the freedom. As the poem is in free verse there are neither rhyming pairs nor rhythm. But the poet had used figurative language and the prominent figures of speech are Repetition as well as personification as many words are repeated, and poet personify the non human objects. It enlightens us with the poet’s self-realisations about the journey of life. It's our choice which way we should go because the road never lead us, we have to decide. That's why good fortune or luck is not required as we are the good fortune or luck. 
The poem is about self-realisation, and the consistency in the life. the poet is against staying in one place for too long.
The special features of the poem is it's pictorial quality and imagery which appeals to our sense organs. The Poet is able to create the pictorial quality by his beautiful descriptions of nature and various elements of nature. 
People should take the road as point to start over towards something new. The journey of life should be mobile and always on the road to move on.

The poem gives us the moral of life we should keep moving ahead inspite of any obstacles and difficulties in life. I love this poem because it's a self motivational poem which helps to bring good discipline in our life. 





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