In the depths of solitude” written by Tupac Shakur is a poem that I feel I could relate to and other can too. It shows that how it is possible to be alone without creating boundaries and being isolated. While reading the poem there were three key words that stood out to me: solitude, accepted, and regret. Solitude is the state of being alone. In the first line “I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal” (Shakur). The word solitude mean being alone and trying to figure out what one should do in this situation. Further along in the poem Tupac explain how being in state of solitude is frustrating. Many people can relate to the state of being in solitude. I remember there was time when I was in the state of solitude. I felt liked everyone turn against because of one person. At my church all of the girls hated me. They would make negative comments about me and laugh at me when I walk by, because I fell out with the leader of their group. Every time I went to church I felt alone no one would talk to …show more content…
me but my mom. Have you ever felt like you don’t fit in with everyone else? You’re the odd the person in the group. Well, you are not alone because I too have felt like that. Everyone wants to be accepted by someone or a group. No one want to feel isolated from everyone else. In the poem In the Depths of Solitude by Tupac he stated “constantly yearning to be accepted” (Shakur). Being accepted meant to Tupac was being respected by others but to me it means people liking you for who you are and not someone you’re trying to be. Many young people are faced with this challenge of being accepted, because they are trying to figure out the person they want to be. Therefore many of them try to be someone else. For example, when I was in middle school I tried be someone else. I would act like I was hood. I would throw up gang signs and use profanity. During this time everyone was part of a hood and it was considered cool. I felt like I had to be someone else in order for the kids at my school to like me .In the beginning when I was being myself no one wanted to be my friend but when I changed that is when I started making friends . Many people go through life regretting the decision they made.
Sometimes, I wish could travel back in time and change some of my decision. To Tupac regret means he regrets that he has to prove himself to others. while to me it means wishing that I haven’t done something in the past .One thing I regret the most is not taking the SAT/ACT test seriously .I thought that I could take the test without studying and get an average score. By me making this decision I was unable to attend my dream school, so I had to settle for something less. Even though people say you shouldn’t live a life of regrets. This would be the one regret I that I will live with forever because I know I let my family down. The poem “In the Depths of Solitude” is meaningful, it embraces the struggles that most young people can relate to .He analyzes the honest feeling of maturity .The poem potently explains the lost feelings and contradictions that challenges most young people
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When our lives begin, we are innocent and life is beautiful, but as we grow older and time slowly and quickly passes we discover that not everything about life is quite so pleasing. Along with the joys and happiness we experience there is also pain, sadness and loneliness. Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" both tell us about older men who are experiencing these dreadful emotions.
Unfortunately life has many hurdles and roads unturned. I do not feel we should regret the mistakes we have made in our past. Or else, we may be too hesitant to make correct choices in our future.
Loss and isolation are easy, yet difficult to write about. They are easy because every human being can empathize with loneliness. If someone denies this, they are lying because loneliness is a common feeling, anyone can relate. It’s hard because we don’t discuss loneliness or loss publicly very often, and when we do, we forget about it quickly. These poems contrast each other by speaking of the different types of loneliness and isolation, distinguishing between the ones of loss, and isolation in a positive perspective.
Loneliness is usually a common and unharmful feeling, however, when a child is isolated his whole life, loneliness can have a much more morbid effect. This theme, prevalent throughout Ron Rash’s short story, The Ascent, is demonstrated through Jared, a young boy who is neglected by his parents. In the story, Jared escapes his miserable home life to a plane wreck he discovers while roaming the wilderness. Through the use of detached imagery and the emotional characterization of Jared as self-isolating, Rash argues that escaping too far from reality can be very harmful to the stability of one’s emotional being.
...nfined with total loss of control. In solitude, the mind roams freely in its own dangerous secluded world.
In conclusion, both poems are clear on the perspectives of innocence and the perspectives of experience and while experience lifts the veil of innocence it does not erase the raw belief that there is some place or someone who may just be better or may just be holy in a harsh world that is covered by manmade innocence.
solitude is a bad thing. “If this is the great evil of being alone, then what is good and what is
look back on the choices we have made in retrospect thinking what would have happened
Solitude. Examples are found of this idea throughout the one-hundred-year life of Macondo and the Buendia family. It is both an emotional and physical solitude. It is shown geographically, romantically, and individually. It always seems to be the intent of the characters to remain alone, but they have no control over it. To be alone, and forgotten, is their destiny.
His own loneliness, magnified so many million times, made the night air colder. He remembered to what excess, into what traps and nightmares, his loneliness had driven him; and he wondered where such a violent emptiness might drive an entire city. (60)
I thoroughly enjoyed reading David Berman’s poem “Self-Portrait at 28”. Reading this poem made me feel sad, pensive and nostalgic for the events in my life that I miss. I’m not twenty eight, but I feel like the events that the persona talked about in this poem were very universal. I also sympathize with the persona’s depression and feeling with loneliness. I can relate to feel like I am bothering someone while I am talking to them. I often get scared reaching out to people because I am always afraid I am bothering them. The voice is this poem were very strong. The uses of imagery, tone and symbolism help make this poem strong.
apart, a lonely and isolated figure, out of touch with his own age and without
I have yet to encounter a person who did not feel the need for a haven of refuge and solace, where he may unwind, relax and find peace and succor in these times which are fraught with trouble, distress, sorrow and insecurity. This refuge may be in the form of a mall, a club, or a restaurant where food, friendship and fellowship are available and retail therapy is possible. Some people find contentment, just sitting around sipping tea or coffee in a cafe, or imbibing stronger stuff at a bar, while managing to be in solitude, near and yet, like the title of Thomas Hardy’s novel, far from the madding crowd. For others, it could be the local library or an isolated place of worship by the wayside where the comforting silence envelopes and shields them like an electric blanket from the Arctic cold of the world outside. Still for others, their individual cocoons could be the world of their imaginations. I too, have a place where I enjoy serenity in the midst of chaos. It is the room that I share with the love of my life, and where I spend a third of my life, the bedroom.
look back in life, there are many things that I would change, but there is one decision that
In this poem there is much evidence that expresses his loneliness, solitude, and isolation to the rest of the world at that moment in his life.