Ode On Solitude

Ode on Solitude

-       Alexander Pope

                       

                      Introduction:

Alexander Pope was great poet in the classical age. He was born at London in 1668. He wrote many thing like, the Essay on Criticism, the Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man, Ode on Solitude etc.

                       Summary:

In this Ode Alexander Pope describe life of native people. The happy man whose wish and care connected with a few paternal areas bound and his breathe content his native air and his own ground. He passes his whole life in his native place.

In Second Stanza, Poet says that native people’s attire, bread and milk get by herd, flocks and fields. He takes shade in summer and fire in winter by trees. His whole life connected with rural thing.

In Third Stanza, Poet says that the native people have much blest who not find how his hours, days and years are passes. His body is always healthy and his mind is full of peace. His all days are quite. He passes his life very softly and very freely, no tension live in his mind.

In Fourth Stanza, Poet says that native people take sound sleep at night, he sleep freely not sleep with tension. He study very easily and get wet recreation and his meditation in innocence. In whole stanza poet says native man live freely his all work he do with the innocence.

In Last Stanza Poet says that, let live him unseen, unknown means no any man know him and he die unlamented no man know about him and no any one tell where he lie, this is the desire of poet in this Ode.