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In 'The Way Through The Woods' by Rudyard Kipling the poet describes the secret world of nature that now exists because an old road no longer exists, and the trees, grass and animals have reclaimed it. The mysterious quality of the poem is helped by the vivid descriptions of the wildlife, the silence and the fact that no explanation is given.
However, one clue lies in the lines about the animals which live there, whichare secret to everyone except one person - the keeper! Had you thought about the possibility that this person may have been a gamekeeper? These workers patrolled the estates of rich landowners after common land was taken away from peasant use by fencing in, and due to economic circumstances times were often hard and hungry for the poor. Many would turn to a quick rabbit for the pot, salmon for the grill or even worse, pheasant for the oven! These game foods had to be protected from thieves ('poachers') who would lift them in the dead of night, by gamekeepers. These workers would march around with a gun, hauling out any poachers they found. One way of closing off their access was to fence in the land and any public footpaths or roads that crossed it.
This may seem uncharitable to us today, but faith in God was being shaken at this time and scientists were finding out new things shaking the foundations of the church, which was seen by some to be 'shutting the road to enlightenment.' So there may also be a message about that concealed within the poem.
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Analysis of The Way Through the Woods
Stanza One
They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.
The poem begins with the speaker stating that one particular road was “shut…Seventy years ago.” This first line is spoken as if the reader already has prior knowledge of the road. Although seventy years have passed since anyone was able to traverse this path the speaker remembers it well.
Since the time the road was closed the “Weather and rain” have ”undone it.” Due to the fact that it wasn’t maintained, the elements have almost erased it entirely. If one was to come upon this place now, unaware of the history, they would not know that there was “once a road through the woods.” Nature has taken back the area that humans had claimed.
Trees have been planted and grown up around the path, helping to obscure what was left of the path. Now, if one was searching for it, they would have to go “underneath the coppice and heath.” Here, the speaker is referencing a wooded area that is annually cut back to stimulate growth and “heath,” or opposite. This is an area of uncultivated land. It can also refer to a type of common shrub that grows wild. One would also be forced to go around the “anemones.” This word is wide-ranging and refers to an expansive genus of flowers.
There is a contrast here between the way that humans have worked the land, abandoned it, and then worked it again, and the way nature is trying to take it back. In the next lines the speaker refers to the “keeper.” This person is likely the one in charge of monitory the area. The speaker refers to the “keeper” vaguely. There is no real definition to what their job is but one can assume they have access to all the wildlife that has since come back to the area.
The keeper is now the only one who is able to see beyond the surface level of the woods. This person sees the “ring-dove” brooding, or preparing to sit and incubate eggs. Their position allows them to see the “badgers roll[ing] at ease.” The animals are comfortable with this person. They feel as if they are able to continue on with their lives. There is an element of jealously between the speaker and this keeper. The keeper has access to a now secret world no one else can see.
Related poetry: Biography of Rudyard Kipling
Stanza Two
Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate,
(They fear not men in the woods,
Because they see so few.)
You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet,
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods …
But there is no road through the woods.
In the next stanza the speaker discusses what happens if one “enter[s] the woods” on a “summer evening late.” One could slip into this area that is seemingly off-limits while no one is watching. The air would be cooling off for the day and the animals would be as relaxed as possible. One might even be able to hear the “otter whistle…[to] his mate.”
The animals have no reason to fear “men” as there are so “few” passing through the area now. If the road still existed, this would not be the case. If one entered into the woods at this time there might even be a detectable sound of a “horse’s feet” beating on the ground. They move without hesitation and without need for a path.
In the final lines the speaker increases the mystical and mysterious elements of this piece by describing how the horses seem to know “perfectly…The old lost road through the woods.” He concludes with the line, “But there is no road through the woods.” It has vanished so completely, he could not prove to another it ever existed.
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