Knowledge makes one curious. It makes one pursue his fears and his loneliness. Solitariness is not the loneliness one experiences generally. It is a totally different affair. It threatens and fascinates at the same time. It is difficult to imagine oneself alone in this world, and yet it is the ultimate truth. When one encounters his loneliness, it starts to attract him because it is something that is not known and we, the humans, have a tendency to follow what is not known. Man is frightened but curious when he encounters his loneliness. He wants to know. He is unable to consider himself among other people who live as normally as they possibly can. He feels that they are deceiving themselves. He becomes an outlaw, one who does not fit in the daily routine that others find so easy to live with. He becomes a solitary and embarks on a journey to live an authentic life.
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It is marked by psychic activity because the narrator is writing about his personal experiences in his notebook. Everything he sees, he recounts it in his notebook. There are everyday incidents, and memories from his past. Writing about so many things, he gives the glimpse of his inner being, and the struggles he is going through. Encounters with people on the streets give him an understanding of his own self. It becomes a window for him to look at his own fears through them. It is only when he encounters himself as a lonely being in the world that he is able to understand his experiences, evaluate them for himself, and write about them. In the company of his own self, he thinks and rethinks about his experiences and encounters in order to understand them. As his loneliness grows, he becomes able to evaluate his life, and is able to grow. This gives us an understanding of the change that is occurring within him, and he himself becomes aware of it after a
[Literature] may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and an evasion of the visible and sensible world.
Later on in the poem, we learn of the reason for this emotional distress the author is experiencing. The author longs for the touch of a “vanished hand/And the sound of a voice that is still” (11-12). These two eerie indicators point the reader towards the conclusion that the author has lost someone with whom he was close. The author continues to use the physical world to describe the one he has lost, emphasizing the presence of death within the poem. The combination of his inability to say what thoughts he has and his use of physical world descriptions for this missing person may indicate that he is still in the early stages of grief, attempting to fully comprehend his loss.
It shows that the narrator has an obsession because he has thought out his actions through and was very detailed in the way he retold
What an environment to be around in time of loneliness? The sun was rising when both men
The author explained that many seekers know what they need to satisfy that spiritual dimension of their lives, but they never enter into an active search mode. He explained that perhaps by examining the benefits of being a seeker, they can begin to do something about it. The author afterward, goes on to list and explain the benefits of being an active seeker. They are as follows:
Solitude by definition is a state of loneliness or isolation. Frequently, during these conditions, one feels at ease with their environment and confident with the companion of just themselves. However, confinement can also impact a person the same way spending too much time with someone else can make an individual abhorred and jaded with their company. Also, ironically, it is thought to be a negative practice since a person tends to lose touch with themselves as they get to know their inner spirit. Similarly, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein validates the dangers of quarantine through her characters and the theme solitude itself. It demonstrates how desolate situations knock on the door of mentality and to an extent, ring the bell of paranoia.
By his description of “drowning in desolation,”it could be interpreted as suffocating with devastation, no one can soothe his lonely soul. Corresponding to The Wanderer, “My heart has closed on itself, quietly learning
In Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” loneliness is described through a desolate spider that vainly attempts to start a web. When the narrator shifts from speaking about the spider making its web to a human attempting to find its place in the world, the person is depicted as being stranded “in measureless oceans of space” (Whitman 7). The spider is having trouble attaching its first fiber to a branch on the tree in order to start its web. The human is having trouble finding a niche in the world in order to feel a sense of belonging. The isolation of the spider represents how despairing and desolate a person may feel in life when there are so many options for their life path. It is impossible to determine which is the right one for them, therefore it seems like all the efforts put into navigating through the vast ocean will simply be in vain. However, no matter how lonely and hopeless it can be, people must be patient just like the spider was when making its spider web.
During the experiment I felt that solely facing myself and being alone is difficult. From my understanding, being alone comes from inner self-completeness and it is an initiated life style with positive attitude. Being alone is difficult because people need to solely face themselves, stay with themselves and enjoy living with themselves. Alone people are not only self-support but also can take care of others. Alone people must have passion about their life. They do not require any specific conditions on external environment because they are inner-complete. They live in their life. On the other hand, lonely person has to stay with crowd people otherwise they will feel boring. This boring feeling is an illness life style because if they cannot stay with themselves means they do not love how they live. However, they were not brave to change their living philosophy so they have to rely on other people and live in others’ life. Since lonely people’s inner mind is insufficient to take care of themselves, they urge to find others to feed them, to hear them and to look after them. The best prescription of loneliness is a crowd people. Lonely people hold parties to care each other, warm each other and cure each other. However, the loneliness does not go away because essentially a crowd of lonely people is still loneliness. This silent vow tells me that I am inner-incomplete and sometimes feel lonely
He does this by using a consistent reference throughout the first half of the poem to the 'tapping' to create a feeling of unease in the reader. To replicate a similar emotion, I used the technique of repetition in my delivery of the character "The Whisper". This repetition and denial of its prospective danger ('nothing was said and nothing is wrong') has an ironic effect as it infers in the reader's mind that there could be a real danger to the protagonist, because it shows the character attempting to convince herself that everything was normal under unnatural circumstances. I believe this fills the reader with great trepidation for the character. Furthermore, neither in the first half of either fiction is the origin of the 'tapping' or "Whisper" properly introduced until later on. Creating a feeling of the unknown in the reader as they don't know what the threat to the protagonist is, causing them to feel anxious alongside the protagonist. By doing this I hoped to create a more realistic and relatable feeling of fear in my
The second point that is an interesting point for me to talk is about the narrator confused the eye. The protagonist seems to be very nervous, afraid and confused, during the story contradicts himself
She felt a bit guilty at first, but she continually strove to render herself unreachable to them. Instead of feeling sorrow in her loneliness, she began to relish it. She was feeling strange
observer of the broken and damaged psyche of the modern individual. Roper mentioned that “The poem is spoken by a young man who describes three visits to an older lady who treats him as friend though at the end she declares that the friendship has failed” (Roper,2007, 42)
I am a very solitary person (says the married man with three small, clingy children, who teaches literature and plasma physics to 300 people at a time); I am at my happiest when I am unbothered, unnoticed, and uninvolved with my fellow man. The irony is that while I am waxing monastic, all that time spent in quiet contemplation is fully devoted to the study and investigation of my fellow man. Yet, how closely can I possibly come to finding true happiness if I desire to find it alone?
The stanza establishes a form of isolation between the persona to the place that they live, as they believe that in this unknown territory, ‘[they] think / in a language of [their] own and talk in’ (Stanza 1, Line 4/5) those who lives in the territory. Almost every reader can relate to this theme of isolation as a common theme that a person would experience in their lifetime would be moving to a new area that they have never been to before. This goes for the persona, as even after ‘living in the strange, dark city for twenty years’ (Stanza 1, Line 1) the persona feels out of sync with the system. With effective writing and a great use of imagery (whether it is auditory or visual), Duffy writes in an extremely clever way in which the reader can definitely have sympathy for the narrator of the poem. The author aims to achieve a strong connection between