his withdrawal from the world is total. His "directive" to readers (for he is also our guide, who "only has at heart [our] getting lost") takes us on an interior journey into a remote countryside, where civilization has been effaced. Only when we are completely lost may we come to our true selves: "And if you're lost enough to find yourself/By now, pull in your ladder road behind you/And put a sign up CLOSED to all but me." The poem shares not only Thoreau's passion for nature but also his occasional wariness. Frost recommends we sing a "cheering song" to ward off the fear "of being watched from forty cellar holes,/As if by eye pairs out of forty firkins."from The Wall Street Journal: 'Hard to Understand, but Easy to Love'
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