not a critique, but a question about this line:
"you've always known which way your life was bound'
Is "bound' meant to indicate direction, or a tying-together, or both?
The reason I ask is that it struck me a just a little odd. I thought about this, and realized that it might be because "bound" as an adjective used in this sense is usually followed by "for," with the "destination" mentioned, or is preceded by a destination, e.g. "homeward bound." In this instance, "way" seems to indicate direction, whereas "where" would indicate destination. Can anyone shed any grammatical light on this for me? It will help me understand this use of the word better when encountering it in the future.
It is, of course, a wonderful poem with a great combination of very natural language at its surface that yields to great depth of thought and craft with reading and rereading.
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