Ode on Solitude

                                    Ode on Solitude

This poem ‘ Ode on solitude’ wrote when Pope was 12 years old. This poem sets in very peace mood and relaxed to use make calm. This poem about the solitude life of man.

‘Ode on solitude’ by Alexcander Pope. Initially in the poem the poet talks about the lonely life of farmer. We generally believed that the life of farmer is unfortunate one because he has to live in the far away. But Pope thinks that farmer’s life is fortunate one because he get the chance to breath in the “Native air” and opportunity to live in “Mother land”.

The same emphasis that how lucky farmers are that in second stanza that farmers get to eat bread from his own field “ flocks supply farmers attire in summer, when sunlight an noises by his heat, the treed of farm give shade to farmers. 

Especially society people beloved that solitude life is curse but Pope thinks that solitude life is a “bliss”. He emphasis in third stanza that a farmer can take the pressures of pure air and food, he can stay close to nature which provides him peace to mind. But we people Struggle a lot to earn bread and survive in modern life. People of city struggle a lot yet they do not get to end and drink healthy food and water.

While people who close to nature especially farmers can get the ‘sound sleep’ most important is they do not loss there innocence to contrast with people who became very much practical without innocence and emotions. The poet considered solitude life with the bliss that people who live this type of life do not have to care about what society think for him. They do not need to follow any tradition like rituals set by society. They only care for themselves and can live happy, satisfied and careless close to nature life.

Therefore in the last lines that poet urges to god that late him leave

‘Unseen and unknown’

‘Thus unlamented let me die

Steal from the world and not a stone

Tell where I lie’

In these above lines the poet talks about the way that man live solitude life that also at the end of the life they wanted the death which is unknown from the society.