loneliness and isolation poems

rhetorical question- humans isolated and unresponsive to nature

‘Shall earth no more inspire thee thou lonely dreamer now?’

lack of freedom, creativity and self expression

• simile- social isolation from industrialisation

‘the world seems one huge prison-house and court’

• negative superlative- emphasises misery

• monotony creates emotional void

‘with lowest rate of colour, warmth and joy’

traditional isolation has become comforting and tranquil

‘into a silence that was not an absence’

shows urban disconnect/ isolation has spread from city to nature

‘ I felt sorry for any grey tree in London, for the family they don’t have’

humans abandoned natural world/ emotional alienation from homeland

‘the beach deserted except for a lone wave of rubbish against the old seawall’

lost connection in England as no one is making space for her culture

‘my voice a mystery in the Anglo echo chamber’

unfamiliar and disconnected with her home country

‘before heading back like a tourist to the sanctuary of my hotel room’