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Solitude

Published on Nov 18, 2015

Joseph Kim

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Solitude

by: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Analysis

  • "Laugh and the world laughs with you" 
  • This quote shows personification by giving human qualities to the world.
  • This figurative language makes me picture the world laughing at me.
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analysis

  • "Weep, and you weep alone."
  • This quote shows repetition because it repeats weep. 
  • This figurative language makes the mood very sad. 

analysis

  • "Sing, and the hills will answer."
  • This quote shows personification because the hills do not answer
  • This figurative makes the poem seem creepy~ 
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analysis

  • End Rhymes
  • Stanza 1: "alone","own" and "air","care"
  • Stanza 2: "go", "woe" and "all", "gall"
  • Stanza 3: "by", "die" and "train", "pain"
  • The poem uses end rhyme in the poem to give rhythm and mood 
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analysis

  • Internal Rhyme
  • "Succeed and give, and it helps you live"  
  •  The poem uses internal rhyme by making live and give rhyme.
  • This helps support the idea of the poem.  

Restating stanza one~

  • The world has too much trouble of its own to look at you.
  • So, laugh instead of weeping alone.
  • Text evidence: "Laugh and the world laughs with you"
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Restating Stanza Two~

  • Nobody is going to look at you especially if your depressed.
  • So, rejoice in the environment you are in right now.
  • Text evidence: "Rejoice and men will seek you"

Restating Stanza three~

  • It is your life not anyone else and one by one we will all die.
  • So, Succeed and give while you can!
  • Text Evidence: "But one by one we must all file on...
  • Through the narrow aisles of pain"
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Metaphorical Meaning

  • Laugh when you can, and don't weep or be sad.
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There is not enough time in life to do childish things like that.

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