"Solitude" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox creates a perfect image for what it feels like to be alone. The poem is worded beautifully and gives you an inside look on how the narrator truly feels. A different look of what solitude feels like is presented, as well as the narrator's daily struggles in life. "Solitude" made me more aware of how others feel when they are alone. The start of the poem shows how the narrator sees the world. For example, when the narrator says, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you;/ Weep, and you weep alone;" (1-2). This part of the poem made me think of the new currently. The news is only filled with tragic stories on terrorist attacks, or how a plane crashed killing hundreds. Many look at the world as see nothing but evil. Notice the good in the world took not just the negativity that seems to surround our very breath. Positivity is a great factor in life, and because of this negativity is not favored. In this poem no one want to help the narrator when she is grieving. No one wants to help her see her way through the darkness. No …show more content…
She still has to keep fighting through everything she has been through. This reminds me of Craig from the novel It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vinzzini. Both characters are struggling with feeling low. Both characters realize that others just want to see them happy, and negativity is not an "attractive" characteristic. Both characters deserve to find someone who accepts them for who they are and how they feel. This poem connected with me as soon as I saw it. Although the poem repeats many of the same ideas, the poem gives great examples. Though the poem was repeated, it needed to be in order to get the point across. "Solitude" is an amazing poem, that connects many examples to how one would feel, during a time of sorrow. Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. "Solitude." Good Poems. Ed. Garrison Keillor. New York: Penguin Group, 2003. 254.
I think in the beginning, this poem is mocking the façade of happiness that many clean-cut individuals have. It is a mockery of the thoughts in the criminal mind. Many times, a criminal cannot bring himself to commit suicide, so they take someone else's life instead. By doing so, subconsciously, the criminal knows he will be caught and in turn, executed.
When sorting through the Poems of Dorothy Parker you will seldom find a poem tha¬t you could describe as uplifting or cheerful. She speaks with a voice that doesn’t romanticize reality and some may even call her as pessimistic. Though she doesn’t have a buoyant writing style, I can empathize with her views on the challenges of life and love. We have all had experiences where a first bad impression can change how we view an opportunity to do the same thing again. Parker mostly writes in a satirical or sarcastic tone, which can be very entertaining to read and analyze.
Roberts, Edgar V., and Henry E. Jacobs. "Chapter 12 Words: The Building Blocks of Poetry "Literature: an Introduction to Reading and Writing. Upper Saddle River, NJ:Pearson/ Prentice Hall, 2008. 507. Print.
In this poem, a man’s life is clouded by these terrible memories. Not only did his friend’s death affect his ways, his attitude, but it also affected this man’s family. For example, Diane’s
When I first read this poem, I thought this poem was going to be about a warm embrace between two people who were happy to see each other. I was wrong. The embrace is a lie, just a show to make everyone think this person has something most people desire for love. The tone seems warm and comforting, but it quickly changed. At the end of the poem, the tone becomes very cynical.
The poem demonstrates the discord that exists when people do not treat others humanely. When we discriminate based on culture or wealth, the ending is a tragic one. The author is able to combine diction, which makes violence occur in the readers mind after every stanza, with a view into both worlds in the society to demonstrate the flaws within the form of government. The author not only brings the tragedy to life, she makes it personal. The poem causes the reader to empathize with the workers and realize that they were slain for no reason other than a cultural difference and an inability to leave.
The poem I am writing about is called ‘Absence’ and was written by British poet Elizabeth Jennings. The content of the poem signifies that it is about a loss, either in the form of a death of a loved one or the end to a romantic relationship. How the writer feels about this loss is portrayed by comparing the way she feels inside as being alien to what is going on around her, which seems to be life going on as normal for others.
These two pieces of literature cause the reader to grieve for the characters presented. The obvious suffering they endure when they fail to make anyone realize their pain, forces the reader to acknowledge their existence. As the poem so aptly expresses, "All the lonely people, Where do they all come from? All the lonely people, Where do they all belong?" (pg 425)
The theme of this poem is associated with sadness. The narrator is grieving the loss of his wife Lenore. Throughout the whole poem the narrator has been mourning and remembering
The poem overall compares life to a dream through many aspects. The fact that man cannot control what he dreams of, or how as the day goes on the memory of the dream fades. The speaker in the poem loses control of his world when his love passes on, then as he ages his fond memories of their time together are ebbed away by the tides of time. This poem is enjoyable through the darker experience of loss that throughout time many people go through, and it leaves the reader with the forlorn helplessness that the speaker feels through the poem. “Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” (Keanu Reeves)
"This is Walt Whitman's masterpiece, a classic and influential volume of poems about life, sensuality and other philosophical topics. I first got in contact with his work during a college assignment, and i've been a fan ever since!
This poem makes it seem like when you lose someone you go into a small amount of depression for a while. Because they want nothing to go on anymore they just want everything to stop and them be able to have time to
is speaking to a maiden who has lost her husband to the cruelty of war; “Do not weep, maiden.../Because your lover”-Lines 1/2. Then he turns his attention to the soldier’s daughter “Do not weep, babe.../Because your father”-Lines 12/13. Finally in the fifth stanza the poet is communicating with the soldiers mother, “Mother whose heart hung.../... shroud of your son”-Lines 23/24. The poet does this hoping that readers will feel sympathetic towards these women and spreading sadness through his poem.
Solitude, “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone;” Here is laid bear the paths of solitude and the plights of sorrow. By opening the poem describing the universally known effects of two quite potent emotions, Ella Wheeler Wilcox draws the reader in with familiar experiences. The poem also portrays the light tread of those untroubled by woe, for friends who don’t exist cannot be missed, nor do those who are friendless ever cease to dwell on the past and those times when they did not fair alone. The contrast between the solitary and social lines of the poem emphasizes the sad and solitary theme by describing that which the travelers in solitude no longer have. The flow and rhythm of the words in Solitude etch an image of remembered friendship and lonesomeness into the mind that all might recognize and that most will realize.
It is possible to read this poem as a statement of some self-pity on the