Loneliness: A Falling Leaf

Interpreting and understanding poems are one of the hardest things I encountered n Reading and Literature. I find it hard to read poems. That is why it takes 2 to 3 turns for me just to understand what the poem really tells us. My difficulty in reading poems must be an outcome of my utter disobedience to read books, short stories, poems and epics. I only know a few authors and sometimes, I forget about the stories they wrote. My attitude towards literature is really negative. I just enjoy fairy tale books because they have big font size and the background is colorful. The only novels that I have read were “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, “Charlotte’s Web”, and “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” The book “A Series of Unfortunate Events” is really made for children same as Charlotte’s Web. The “Are You Afraid of the Dark”, however, is an investigative form of novel written by Sidney Sheldon. It is hard for me to read books like these since they contain many pages. I am not really interested in exploring the world of literature. And that is a big problem for me.

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iness

Being instructed to interpret a poem that only contains 22 characters is such a difficult task for me. I know that each character is important and also, their locations.

L(a leaf falls)oneliness is the poem itself. Hard, right? But if I were to analyze this poem, I see an arrow pointing to a word, “iness”. Iness here is a word referring to “I”, being all alone.

After all, this poem is all about loneliness.

Loneliness is being unfrequented by others, deserted, desolate, solitary and sad from lack of companionship or sympathy. For me, this talks about loneliness.

As what I have imagined, there is a tree. The L in the first line symbolizes a tree. The season is a fall for leaves are falling. One by one, they started to fall. And now, only one leaf left in the tree. It kept on hanging on the tree, clinging to its bough. Loneliness filled the air but still the leaf was determined to stay.

That is how we deal with problems. We may be the only one solving it but we should always be determined in winning over it. We have to hold on, never giving up. Sometimes we would lose hope, but we should hold on to it.

Loneliness was created by God to make us strong and independent. It is not a burden, nor a punishment. It is a special gift from God. That’s what I believed.

Strong willpower and confidence with ourselves give us high self esteem even though we are the only ones depending on our lives. Each of us has some difficult problems. Big or small, whatever the size it is, we should fight for that. When everyone seems helpless, when everyone leaves us and when everyone rejects us, let us be strong. Stand tall and believe that we can do it by ourselves. Just say to yourself, “I have a companion, and that is God”.