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A pessimistic and disillusioned poem about the futility of human existence and the impossibility of connection. The speaker depicts men and women engaging in destructive behaviors and concludes that nobody ever finds the one.
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Aug 31, 2024 · A poem about the futility of love and life in a city full of broken people. The poet expresses his cynical view of human nature and the inevitable fate of death and loneliness.
Learn about the meaning and context of Bukowski's poem "Alone With Everybody" from his collection "Love Is a Dog from Hell". Explore the themes of loneliness, fate, and humanity in this annotated text.
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This gives the poem a listless toneat the start. The speaker feels like nothing other than flesh covering bone. He sees that everyone else is flesh and bone as well. Almost as if it were an afterthought, the speaker claims, “and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul”. The speaker never mentions the identity of this vague “they”. Whomever “t...
In a yet melancholy tone, the speaker reveals the outcome of this feeling of meaninglessness and hopelessness in mankind. Women, he portrays as expressing this feeling in bursts of anger. Men, he portrays as numbing the feeling by drinking away their sobriety.
In these lines of ‘Alone with Everybody‘, the speakers express the earnest desire to find that one person with whom to experience life and give of themselves to one another spiritually, emotionally, and physically. But, as the speaker concludes, “nobody finds the one”. Instead, they continue to go from one person to the next, “crawling in and out o...
These lines give the reader an expression of that sense of deepest loneliness that has already been felt. They give expression to a feeling of meaninglessness. These words essentially suggest that human beings are nothing more than flesh covering bone, by instinct searching for more flesh. The speaker continues in lines 20-24.
At this point, the speaker concludes that as he is only flesh and bone, there seems no chanceof meaningful human connection.
The repetitionof this line suggests the speaker’s intense desire to find someone with whom to spend life. The lack of meaning and value in his life clearly stems from his lack of authentic human interaction. Although he is with everybody, as the title suggests, he has not yet found anyone with whom he can actually share his life. He has not found “...
The ending of ‘Alone with Everybody‘ is certainly interesting. The speaker is clearly searching to fill a void that he feels in his life. This void, he believes, is the lack of a person to share his life with. He loses hope that the void can be filled. He has never seen this void filled in someone’s life, and he has certainly never felt it filled i...
A poem that captures the irony of feeling lonely in a crowd, seeking an elusive connection. The speaker expresses the desire to find "the one" but concludes that no one ever does and nothing else fills the void in his heart.
Listen to this Poem. the flesh covers the bone. and they put a mind. in there and. sometimes a soul, and the women break. vases against the walls. and the men drink too. much.
Alone With Everybody. by Charles Bukowski. the flesh covers the bone. and they put a mind. in there and. sometimes a soul, and the women break. vases against the walls. and the men drink too.
"Alone With Everybody" is a powerful and thought-provoking poem that speaks to the human struggle with loneliness and the desire for meaningful connection with others.
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