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Comment 3 of 3, added on May 14th, 2006 at 7:15 AM.
this poem is about me gettng drunk and eating pig feet
i should know i wrote it
brad from United States
Comment 2 of 3, added on May 7th, 2006 at 3:49 AM.
those at the end were his allies who'd fallen on their collective journey to the tower. roland is an untested knight, whose mind is filled w/ the horrors of an unfamiliar world, full of wrongs he feels compelled to right. in the end no one knows if he is successful or not, though apparently the knowledge that he was allowed to fail was more comforting to him than the actual completion of his journey. in "childe roland" a childrens story about a young boy who takes his fathers sword into the land of the elfking to rescue his sister from the dark tower we learn that he is successful (though most claim this story is not connected to brownings poem.) so, assuming that his sister might be his compasionate side (soft & feminine) & she is prisoner to the tower, then perhaps rolands world is an ugly wasteland w/out that sense of innocence & in his journey he turns his back on all his commrades, even golden cuthbert, for lack of his compasion.?. who knows, even robert browning claimed after he wrote it (from a dream he felt was sent by God) that only God knew its meaning.
rob
Comment 1 of 3, added on November 28th, 2005 at 8:51 PM.
We went through the whole thing and decided it was describing this guy's journey down a road with lots of rough terrain on someone else's suggestion. He gets to the end and sees everyone who failed before him. So is this his journey through life?
Britt and Dave from United States
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this poem is about me gettng drunk and eating pig feet
i should know i wrote it
brad from United States