Being alone can help and hurt

~Jake F.

Being alone can help and hurt. Feeling alone and feeling like an outsider can help you but it can do the opposite. Feeling alone can hurt you but it can make you reflect on yourself. It can make you realize what is happening around you and what is making you feel the way you are. I know this poem has the theme of being alone because of one block of text, the text refers to a man laying on his couch staring off into space and feeling alone in a “pensive” mood. He is resting at night and feeling down and wanting to feel free like a cloud.

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

The poem goes back to feeling sad and alone while wanting to feel free and just wanting to float through life. The poem is a great poem to show the bad parts of life. The parts of life where you are just thinking about how good life could be while you are sitting alone staring off thinking about it. The poem contains a couple instances in the poem where you realize how being alone really makes you think about how fast life goes by, and what it can do to you once you step back and realize it. Being alone can help you realize many things but thinking about life passing by while you are just thinking about life seems sad to me.