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On Solitude - Alexander Pope
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Introduction :
🍃 Pope writes about the joys of a slow-paced rural life in the poem "On Solitude." A man can be content if he owns a castle and a few acres of land that provide him with food and clothes. This kind of person does not get involved in the complicated parts of life. He can read, think, and grow old with peace. Last but not least, when he dies, he'll buried quietly, without any fuss or noise, without being seen, known, or mourned.
🍃Pope wrote this short song to show that he wanted to shut out all noise and live and die alone.
Stanza 1- 2
🍃A man can lead a happy and fulfilling life if he gets a small plot of land from his father and grows crops to eat. The cows he owns will give him milk.
"Whose herds with milk, whose fields with -bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire,"
🍃He will make bread with the wheat that grows in his fields. He will get the wool he needs to make his dress from the sheep he takes care of. In the summer, the trees in his yard will shade him, and in the winter, they will keep him warm.
"Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter, fire."
Stanza 3-4
🍃The speaker in Pope's imagination perceives the agricultural life as a heavenly realm on Earth, characterized by a pastoral environment where fields flourish with the farm family's sustenance and trees provide shade in summer and fuel in winter. He will find that the days go by slowly. He will have peace of mind, a good night's sleep, fun times, solitude, and reflection
"In health of body,peace of mind,
Quiet by day."
Stanza 5
🍃In the last stanza, the speaker requests the Granter of wishes for permission to live his life in obscurity. He aspires to imitate the farmer, particularly in his role as an ordinary person who would live quietly and not disrupt others. The poet desires to peacefully and inconspicuously pass away, without anyone noticing his absence or grieving his demise.
"Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
This unlamented. Let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie"
Conclusion :
🍃 The poem suggests that happiness can be found in being self-sufficient and accomplishing one's own goals without wanting to be noticed.
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