Loneliness in Mr. Flood's Party

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Loneliness in Mr. Flood's Party

We've all seen him -- the aged man, alone in his lst years, living on memories and an occasional trip into a bottle. Eben Flood, the main and only character in "Mr. Flood's Party," written by Edwin Arlington Robinson, is that aged man. He has a past that no one in town really remembers, except him. No one remembers his accomplishments; no one remembers his failures. He's just an old man who finds himself alone at the end of his life.

Robinson uses three methods to show Eben Flood's loneliness. The first is to describe the isolation of the setting of the poem. Mr. Flood climbs a hill which overlooks the town and finds a secluded road where he can hold his "party." The night sky is lit up by moonlight, giving off the feeling of "silver lonelin...

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