Solitude
At one point in anyone’s life, no matter how much friends ones have or how deep ones relationships with their love ones are, loneliness is inevitable. Now, how anyone deal with it are different. As for Mark Strand, the poet, he developed this feeling of solitude and integrated it with in his poems, using it as a theme and represent it from three different perspectives in three of his poems: “Lines for the winner”, “Keeping things whole” and “The Remains.”
In the first poem "Lines for the Winner" (Mark Strand, 1979), as the title suggested, is a poem related to accomplishment or how to accomplish certain goals. Strand claimed such thing came with a price and the pay is none other than solitude. The overall poem could be said to be …show more content…
Both points can be interpreted as the changes that occurred in an ill-mannered direction and yet, in the fifth line. It said for us to never change or falter even those distortions that occurred were for the worse. The senses of only focusing on one thing alone and never subject to changes around them then could represent solitude very well.
In the second poem, “Keeping Things Whole” (Strand, 1980) was done in a first person perspective and it demonstrate the theme of loneliness as eternal solitude. In the first two stanza: In a field I am the absence of …show more content…
The poem talked about the losses of the narrator from simple shoes to himself. It was done in a first person point of view. At first, the poem started off with a simple sentence where the narrator claimed that he erased his memories on the names of those he knew. Slowly, he also emptied himself of his money and left his shoes on the road. Then the significance of those he threw away began to intensify as he even left his own name, then his wife and lastly, his life. Yet he declared that he remained. In the eight stanza “My parents rise out of their thrones / into the milky rooms of clouds” (Strand,), it could be referred that the narrator’s parent are now gone to heaven as the milky rooms of clouds could represent the land of the eternal resting place. Lastly, in the last stanza where the narrator mentioned that “I empty myself of my life and my life remains.” Given what we knew about the narrator, he had thrown away many things valuable in his life. What this last bit of the poem can be interpreted is that everything that is valuable in his life was not present anymore. Those valuable assets could definitely be the definition for life as people truly live their lives when they’re happy, and truly have a fulfilling time in what they do with the people around them. But, he still stood firm that his life is still there, that he’s still alive. The fact that all those valuables things in his lives
At one point in anyone’s life, no matter how much friends ones have or how deep ones relationships with their love ones are, loneliness is inevitable. Now, how anyone deal with it are different. As for Mark Strand, the poet, he developed this feeling of solitude and integrated it with in his poems, using it as a theme and represent it from three different perspectives in three of his poems: “Lines for the winner”, “Keeping things whole” and “The Remains.”
In the first poem "Lines for the Winner" (Mark Strand, 1979), as the title suggested, is a poem related to accomplishment or how to accomplish certain goals. Strand claimed such thing came with a price and the pay is none other than solitude. The overall poem could be said to be …show more content…
Both points can be interpreted as the changes that occurred in an ill-mannered direction and yet, in the fifth line. It said for us to never change or falter even those distortions that occurred were for the worse. The senses of only focusing on one thing alone and never subject to changes around them then could represent solitude very well.
In the second poem, “Keeping Things Whole” (Strand, 1980) was done in a first person perspective and it demonstrate the theme of loneliness as eternal solitude. In the first two stanza: In a field I am the absence of …show more content…
The poem talked about the losses of the narrator from simple shoes to himself. It was done in a first person point of view. At first, the poem started off with a simple sentence where the narrator claimed that he erased his memories on the names of those he knew. Slowly, he also emptied himself of his money and left his shoes on the road. Then the significance of those he threw away began to intensify as he even left his own name, then his wife and lastly, his life. Yet he declared that he remained. In the eight stanza “My parents rise out of their thrones / into the milky rooms of clouds” (Strand,), it could be referred that the narrator’s parent are now gone to heaven as the milky rooms of clouds could represent the land of the eternal resting place. Lastly, in the last stanza where the narrator mentioned that “I empty myself of my life and my life remains.” Given what we knew about the narrator, he had thrown away many things valuable in his life. What this last bit of the poem can be interpreted is that everything that is valuable in his life was not present anymore. Those valuable assets could definitely be the definition for life as people truly live their lives when they’re happy, and truly have a fulfilling time in what they do with the people around them. But, he still stood firm that his life is still there, that he’s still alive. The fact that all those valuables things in his lives