Your AP Lit students expect early Modernist poetry to be melancholy and ornamental. This poem is neither. It's a classification of humanity — and most people don't make the cut. "He andado muchos caminos" is Machado's ethical manifesto: 40 lines that divide the world in two and quietly name which side is worth being on. The whole argument runs on observation, not assertion. Which makes it harder to argue with — and more interesting to teach. This scaffolded resource builds the poem from the grou