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Summary. ‘ The Vagabond ’ by Robert Louis Stevenson is a thoughtful poem about living a simple, free life. The poem starts with the speaker asking someone, likely God, to allow him to live a life that he loves. He wants to be free and walk on the solid road, with the sky above him. He’s uninterested in the things that inspire most men and ...
- Female
- October 9, 1995
- Poetry Analyst And Editor
August 1, 1986. 4 min read. The opening shot moves in ever so slowly across the bleak fields of a French winter landscape. Two trees stand starkly outlined at the top of a hill. There is no joy here. As the camera moves closer, we see in the bottom of a ditch the blue and frozen body of a young woman. A field hand discovers her and lets out a cry.
Stanzas 1 and 2. Like the vocal line, the accompaniment of Stanza 2 is the same as Stanza 1. pp f pp colla voce crescendo Stanza 3 (Bars 44-61) E minor, (relative minor of G, dominant of C minor) Contrasting section Stanza 3 tells us that nothing, not even the worst weather and cold of autumn and winter will convince the Vagabond to give up his
Can you provide a stanza-by-stanza explanation for Stevenson's poem "Vagabond"? Robert L. Stevenson's poem "The Vagabond" describes a life for which he yearns.
Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above. And the byway night me. Bed in the bush with stars to see, Bread I dip in the river --. There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever. The vagabond (a wanderer) wishes to live a life of uncontrolled travel, and all he wants to do is roam from one destination to another.
In the first stanza the speaker summarizes the joys of the life he loves. He has the radiant sky above him ("the jolly sky": personification and metonymy). He has the byway right at hand near to ...
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Summary and Analysis. “The Vagabond,” by the English poet Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), is spoken by a free-spirited rambler who claims to enjoy his sometimes challenging and isolated ...
