Directive Themes
Exploration
Ready to embark on a kind of magical mystery tour? This trip doesn't follow a set itinerary, that's for sure. In fact, in order to commence your journey in "Directive," you have to take a step back...
Man and Natural World
We hate to state the obvious, but "Directive" is a Robert Frost poem. So, yeah, there's gonna be some nature up in this joint. In this case, the nature is more than just the setting of the poem's e...
Memory and The Past
Get ready for some time travel, Shmoopers. In "Directive," the speaker asks you to travel "back out of all this now too much with us." In other words, we've gotta go back to simpler times, when the...
Spirituality
Life may be a rat race, but there's a way out of the maze. From the crazy hubbub of daily life and all its demands and noise, it's possible to make an escape, which is just what "Directive" is tell...