Poem about helping others?

how does this poem deal with helping others? i have to write an essay and i got this poem and another passage. i don't see how it helps people! please help





THERE are hermit souls that live withdrawn


In the place of their self-content;


There are souls like stars, that dwell apart,


In a fellowless firmament;


There are pioneer souls that blaze the paths


Where highways never ran-


But let me live by the side of the road


And be a friend to man.





Let me live in a house by the side of the road


Where the race of men go by-


The men who are good and the men who are bad,


As good and as bad as I.


I would not sit in the scorner's seat


Nor hurl the cynic's ban-


Let me live in a house by the side of the road


And be a friend to man.





I see from my house by the side of the road


By the side of the highway of life,


The men who press with the ardor of hope,


The men who are faint with the strife,


But I turn not away from their smiles and tears,

Poem about helping others?
Look at the repeated line "And be a friend to man."


While subject to various interpretations, being a friend would include helping others.


And this helpful stance is quite in opposition to others he mentions who are not so friendly: "hermit souls that are withdrawn," or "souls like stars, who dwell apart."


There are all sorts of ways one can be a friend, depending what the needs of a person are. Identifying those needs is a part of helping others. The poem doesn't specify a certain type of help, but the poem is about helping.

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