"It reminded him how he had needed
A place to go to in his own direction,"
I interpreted these two lines to be saying that the poem was his direction in life. Stevens seems to be saying that the poem, to him, is like a mountain to a climber. Just as a climber knows that the top of the mountain is his goal, Stevens knows that the poem is his goal. The poem is a sort of release from his normal life. Poetry is his "recreation", his hobby, his way to get away from the everyday drone of life. This is how I interpret the lines.
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Chester, nicely done! I think you hit the nail on the head with this interpretation. Now, can you apply the same type of analysis to selections from "Into the Wild"? It's something to think about at least: literature, poetry, writing, seems to have played a large part in both the rise and fall of Alexander Supertramp.... but how?
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