Question

What is the message that the railway junction poem wants to convey

Answer 1

The Railway Junction by Walter de la Mare signifies the journey of life that the poet contemplates.at the cross-road 'through the tunneled gloom the track forked into two' which could be either dark future 'darkening hills' or hope for the future 'distant seas'. He chooses one and realizes how different it is from the one he was leading on. The stillness and peace that he experiences there, he knows, is for a short while, for after some time more people would join the journey there and he would also be gone. He thinks whether the other people like him in the journey of life would reach their destination, whether they will get to 'nocturnal hills or shores. Though he has traveled the train of life with other co-travelers, he never knew others purpose to travel. Now he realizes the speeding time 'evening growing late' and wonders if the decisions he has made in life are right or wrong.