Question

what are the various adventures that the narrator mentions in the poem the adventurer by karan singh

Answer 1

For I have gone where men have never been,

and wandered over countries far and near

and crossed great mountains with no trace of fear,

and gazed on many a strange and wondrous scene;

on mighty oceans have I plied my raft

where monstrous fishes close beneath me played,

and endless water heaved and lurched and swayed,

as tirelessly I hurled my lethal shaft;

and through the great primeval forests tall

I plied the lonely furrow of my life

and slew great monsters, waged untiring strife

with creatures of the darkness, great and small;

and often as I strove with might and main,

and which each victory won for renown,

I thought that I had mown my troubles down

and conquered fear and death, old age and pain;

but ever were my hopes rudely belied

for wander as I might throughout the world

I could not rid me of the terror curled

somewhere within my being, deep inside;

for over all our mortal hopes and gains

hovers the constant shadow of the grave,

of Time, that dims the glory of the brave

and lays at waste our labour and our pains;

and what adventure, what exploit will stay

with us beyond the folded veil of death?

and what, when we have shed our mortal breath,

will speed us on our far, eternal way.

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