Symbol Analysis
Let's be honest, Shmoopers. We'd like our very own path of gold—how about you? And the speaker seems to be aware of that. Man, in the individual sense, seeks his own path toward success, opportunity, and enlightenment. So even if it's the sun that's giving off that path of gold, we still get the sense that the sun and the speaker are thinking along the same lines.
- Line 3: The sun has a path of gold that's straight ahead. And since the sun is personified as "him" here, we know that the speaker is looking to make his own path and the sun's synonymous with one another.