Loneliness In Our Modern Age Analysis

Isolation .vs. Relationships In our lives everyone will experience some type of isolation, whether it be through experiencing a loss of a loved one or just by not being very sociable with people. This can cause some very serious mental or emotional problems depending on how someone handles it. Isolation can cause someone to feel empty inside and have an emotional affect of loneliness in their life; however, having a relationship with someone can fill that sense of emptiness. Although isolation is known for having a physical effect on people, it’s also known to have an long-term emotional affect too. An example of isolation would be having your spouse die causing you to stay at home due to depression of that loss. In the article “Loneliness In Our Modern Age”, written by Catharine Paddock PhD,

There are also some ways that can possibly help someone get out of isolation and defeat the feeling of emptiness. For example: in Catharine Paddock article “Loneliness In Our Modern Age” Paddock expresses a few ways that we can possibly set an end to feeling empty. Paddock states “Join a local interest group, or start a class on a topic you enjoy.” By joining a local interest group or starting a class it allows people to reach out to someone else who could be dealing with loneliness and could possibly be the key to get out of isolation. Continuing on how to fix isolation, looking back to Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “The Lady of Shalott”, Alfred allows the reader to feel the sense of rush he used when The Lady of Shalott escaped her castle to get free. In Part IV, Stanza 1, Alfred states “In the stormy east wind straining, The pale yellow woods were waning, The broad stream in his banks complaining, Heavily the low sky raining. Over towered Camelot; Down she came and found a boat beneath a willow left afloat, and round about the prow she wrote The Lady of