do you know what this is about??

Question

The Bridge by Shel Silverstein

This bridge will only take you halfway there
To those mysterious lands you long to see;
Through gypsy camps and swirling arab fairs
And moonlit woods where unicorns run free.
So come and walk awahile with me and share
The twisting trails and wonderous worlds i've known.
But this bridge will only take you halfway there-
The last few steps you'll have to take alone.

Answer 1

the poem is telling you about all the wonders of the world, things the author wants you to see and experience, but the reality in the last line of the stanza is this, in order for you to experience life, to the fullest, you have to live it...and you can only do that yourself. No one can do it for you because each experience is an individual thing.

Answer 2

It's about teaching/parenting/mentoring.

The mentor is the speaker. The bridge represents the guidance that he gives to the child/student/apprentice. His guidance sets the child on the path to all the wonders the child longs to see. Together, the child and teacher walk through the paths that the teacher has already walked. But the guidance has to end at some point. Then the child must guide himself and depend upon himself to get where he wants to go.

Of course, the destinations aren't really necessarily phsycial destinations. It's not about seeing the world, per se. The "wonderous worlds" represent life experience, knowledge, and wisdom.

Answer 3

I see that the poet is trying to describe here the path you discover when you first fall in love.
At the begining it feels like being in a forgien land, where everything is new & ecxiting. It is a bridge that is built between two people ... effortless, possible & new is love at the begining ... then you may decide to walk all the way over this bridge ... sometimes one would chose not to build .... (or in other words to let go because love is developping into a more effort like feeling)

Answer 4

a) self determination
b) imagination
c) dreams

Notice the constant "movement" in the piece. walking, swirling,gypsy, run free, twisting. That's bascially all dreams are, until we imagine a way to make them real.