In “Loneliness” by Laura Cortes shows how much a man had little hope from the past that helps him live today. He is living day to day without looking further more into life because he is simply not looking forward to anything anymore. The poem expresses how a man is living in hopelessness without a family or a friend but living with trees that he simply appreciates but also the only thing he has. The man is of old age and knows that his life is coming to an end. The speaker mentions “He remembers wonderful harvests, with forty hands helping and carrying” (9,10). Knowing that his life is coming to an end all he has is “ghosts and memories” (3) from the past, which is his family. “He talks to them once in a while, but he would never leave
