This is short Analysis of the poem name The Highway by W. S. Merwin.
POEM:
It seems too enormous just for a man to be
Walking on. As if it and the empty day
Were all there is. And a little dog
Trotting in time with the heat waves, off
Near the horizon, seeming never to get
Any farther. The sun and everything
Are stuck in the same places, and the ditch
Is the same all the time, full of every kind
Of bone, while the empty air keeps humming
That sound it has memorized of things going
Past. And the signs with huge heads and starved
Bodies, doing dances in the heat,
And the others big as houses, all promise
But with nothing inside and only one wall,
Tell of other places where you can eat,
Drink, get a bath, lie on a bed
Listening to music, and be safe. If you
Look around you see it is just the same
The other way, going back; and farther
Now to where you came from, probably,
Than to places you can reach by going on.
About the W. S. Merwin:
W.S. Merwin was conceived in New York City in 1927 and brought up in New Jersey and Scranton, Pennsylvania, the child of a Presbyterian serve. His various accumulations of verse, his interpretations, and his books of exposition have prevailed upon acclaim seven decades. His first gathering of verse, A Mask for Janus (1952), was picked by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Prize. While that first book mirrored the formalism of the period, Merwin, in the long run, ended up known for a generic, open style that shunned accentuation. Writing in the Guardian, Jay Parini portrayed Merwin's develop a style as "his own sort of free section, [where] he layered picture upon brilliant picture, enabling the lines to hang in space, to a great extent without accentuation, without rhymes ... with a sort of elegant earnestness." Although Merwin's composing has experienced expressive changes through the course of his profession, a common subject is man's partition from nature. The writer sees the outcomes of that estrangement as shocking, both for mankind and for whatever is left of the world.....READ MORE
