The most significant journeys are always those that transform us, from which we emerge changed in some way. In Paulo Coelho's modern classic novel The Alchemist and Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken, the journey undertaken by the central exponents leaves both with enlightening knowledge that irrevocably alters their lives. In stark contradiction to this, the poem Eurydice by Ivan Lalic, delves into the disruptive and negative force of knowledge, in contrast to The Alchemist which describes an antithesis of this point relating to knowledge. In all journeys, the eventuality of knowledge is transformative. The universal knowledge and understanding derived from a journey can leave the traveler positively enlightened. In Coelho's story, Santiago is confronted with recurring dreams that lead him to "cross the unknown" in search of buried treasure in Egypt, a metaphor for universal connection, and, in doing so, arrives at the inexorable realization of spiritual transcendence. After arriving at the presumed geographical location of the treasure ''various figures approached him''. They ask the boy to continue searching for this treasure since they are poor refugees and in need of money, but as Santiago does, he finds nothing. Then, after digging incessantly all night, "as the sun rose, the men began to beat the boy", and finally giving in to the truth, Santiago reveals his dreams to the travellers. In doing so, Santiago discovers that these men had also been faced with recurring dreams measured around the place where the boy had made his dreams, both relating to a hidden treasure. But the leader ''was not stupid enough to cross an entire desert just because of a recurring dream''. It is with this fact, that... middle of paper... the realization of an aberrant knowledge, of a painful truth. The closely related journeys of Santiago and Orpheus are equally linked by abject failure, yet they are much more closely linked by the fact that they both enriched themselves by the loss. Both got a win out of defeat. In all the texts discussed, there is a pervasive and unmistakable sense of travel in its unmeasurable and intangible form. The journeys undertaken are not transformative on a physical level, but are journeys that usher in an emotional and spiritual alteration. These are all life-changing anomalies that alter the course and outlook each individual has on their life. Indeed, through the exploitation of knowledge in both a positive and negative context, the texts discussed accept the idea that travel has the greatest importance when it changes your life in some way..