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What does it mean?
Isolation removes human connection and self-awareness.
In plain terms
Being alone cuts you off from speech and others.
What can you take from it?
Isolation separates you from humanity.

Where it applies

  • exile
  • mental health
  • personal crisis

Putting it to work

  • seek connection
  • acknowledge isolation

Questions to consider

  • How do you handle being alone?
  • What does speech mean to you?

Another view

Some find peace in solitude.

More from William Cowper

  1. O solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.

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  2. Society friendship and love Divinely bestow'd upon man, O had I the wings of a dove How soon I would taste you again!

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  3. I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.

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