Short summary of The poem Vagabond
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R. L. Stevenson’s poem “The Vagabond” represents the kind of life that the poet would love
to live. All the narrator wants is to live a natural life filled with the heaven, the land, the birds,
and the river. The poet describes the carefree life of a wanderer who wants nothing about
the pleasures of this world – neither wealth, nor hope, nor love, nor friendship. He only wants
the heaven above and the road below him, so that he may travel on, without any care for the
comforts of life. Nothing can reduce his spirit of wandering. He speaks of harsh condition in
autumn and winter but says that it will not prevent him from his yearning to be on the road.
In the final stanza, he repeats what he said in the second stanza that he knows he will die
sooner or later but he only wants to live his life on the road, with heaven above and the road
below