The Graduate

[Achebe]

Thanks! You're right about edge, I think. The earlier draft was precipice, but now I'm torn between that and the more correct summit....and I'm not entirely sure about the construction of the last stanza....thoughts?

If there's a road, there's no reason for your clothes to be tattered unlesss you rolled your way up. 'Track' would be a better word.

Maybe trail? -- and a wholesale reconstruction. Also, I wonder if I turned this into an ekphrasis.....there's this David-Friedrich painting I'm somehow reminded of by this thing. I'll try it -- edited above.

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Although perhaps the image approaches melodrama....

Isn't that Shelley contemplating the Alps? Very upper class English 19rh century. Torn clothes, even while out hiking, would be an abominable thought. Nope.