'Ode on Solitude' is a poem written by Alexander Pope. He was an 18th century English poet. ' Ode on Solitude' sets a very peaceful mood. Pope chooses to make the calm routine lifestyle of farmer. The various techniques that he uses as uniform stanza, a predictable rhymes scheme and simple languages makes a beautiful poem.
The first stanza starts with the word "happy". While Pope could have used a more complicated word. The simplicity and commonness of his choice immediately sets the mood for the rare. This stanza describes how the man in the poem is only concerned with what happens within his inherited land. It does not mention anything but states that in his own ground.
In the second stanza Pope again uses uniform language to expresses the regularity of the farmer's life. The mention of how the trees are useful both in winter and in summer are provided for by nature.
In the third stanza takes the theme forward were in he refers to Solitude as a 'blest'. He says that ruler life is uncomplicated and the life seems to be at is village. In the city is nearly impossible to find this kind of peace.
In the next stanza we find that it is in link with the context of the third there in talked about peaceful silent and the innocence that solitary man experiences. When he mind is free from all the attentions that or past and of every day life in the cities.
In the last stanza he conclude this poem by requesting not to lament upon the death and not create any sense of lost. In so far as his physical morality is concerns through this stanza. We come to know that perhaps he was lonely and through his understand of life he converted his loneliness into Solitude.
Alexander Pope used very simple languages, structure and ideas in this poem to communicate the thoughts of a solitary and loneliness.
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