Hello, I did notice the other thread but it wasn't helpful. I have an assignment to find 10 poems on journeys either physical or metaphorical and analyze them. Sounds easy, huh? Well after i found lots of poems and reading through them, i realized that all the poems i chosed relates to death which is not good. (Am not allowed to use 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood')
I am also looking for poems that are quests, like knights rescuing damsels or pirates finding treasure, basically something 'noble', etc.

Was wondering, would you classify 'In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae a journey poem?

Thank you for your time,

Dragon_Maiden

D M,
Here are Eldorado by Poe and Excelsior by Longfellow:


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I wouldn't consider In Flanders Fields to be a journey, but I suppose you could stretch it to be a journey of life to death.


john

Thank you very much, i liked the first poem. I am a bit confused though, what does it mean 'over the mountains of the moon, down the valley of the shadow'?

Something like where no man has gone before, I would think. Mountains of the moon meant the source of the Nile, if memory serves, and valley of the shadow of death, where no wevil is feared.


Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old-
This knight so bold-
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow-
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be-
This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied-
"If you seek for Eldorado!"

If you are ambitious, 'The Hunting of The Snark' by Lewis Carroll:

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