I was just wondering if anyone would be able to explain 'Our journey had advanced' by Emily Dickinson ...

I've heard it could be about death, or maybe a corssroads in life... i like the poem but dont really get it. I am really not good at understanding poetic languauge so if anyone has ideas on what it's about, any help would be appreciated!!!

khe sanh - cold chisel

i know this song is about a man who just couldn't settle down in the "fast suburban chains'' a restless youth, but i just dont quite get what its fully about, and how im going to relate it back to my set text AWAY (play) by Michael Gow . .
if anyone has any ideas please post them
Emily

Our journey had advanced --
Our feet were almost come
To that odd Fork in Being's Road --
Eternity -- by Term --

Our pace took sudden awe --
Our feet -- reluctant -- led --
Before -- were Cities -- but Between --
The Forest of the Dead --

Retreat -- was out of Hope --
Behind -- a Sealed Route --
Eternity's White Flag -- Before --
And God -- at every Gate --


Death, yeah, a frequent topic for Emily D. It's in short meter, a favorite for hymns I believe, so she may very well have intended it as such. Eternity is Heaven, the end of the journey of life. The forest of the dead? Dunno, purgatory or limbo perhaps. Shades of Dante's Inferno, sure. Could one compare it to Frost's Road Not Taken? I guess so, but Frost's is more about life's choices to me, and not what awaits us in the projected afterlife.


For the Cold Chisel question, try Googling:

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