The poem discusses how many times or how long something must occur before a significant change or realization happens. It uses ambiguous imagery like roads a man must walk, seas a dove must sail, and cannonballs flying to represent different experiences one must endure. The overall message is that the answers to these questions are unclear and unknown, like the wind.
The poem discusses how many times or how long something must occur before a significant change or realization happens. It uses ambiguous imagery like roads a man must walk, seas a dove must sail, and cannonballs flying to represent different experiences one must endure. The overall message is that the answers to these questions are unclear and unknown, like the wind.
The poem discusses how many times or how long something must occur before a significant change or realization happens. It uses ambiguous imagery like roads a man must walk, seas a dove must sail, and cannonballs flying to represent different experiences one must endure. The overall message is that the answers to these questions are unclear and unknown, like the wind.
The refrain "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind" has been described as "impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind".[2]