Which of the following is a metaphor for the journey in the poem?

self-reliance

houses

voices

shouting

The answer would be self-reliance.

From the start of the poem the speaker iproposes us to the sudden realization that we can listen to our own self-conscious and still excel through life.

This is found through the lines:One day you finally knew

what you had to do, and began,

though the voices around you

kept shouting

their bad advice -

though the whole house

began to tremble

and you felt the old tug

at your ankles.

In this case, t he speaker of the poem leaves us with the task to find our own voice, in a world where society as if to speak for everyone ...