e personality of that character." (Gossett 331). It in the end did change his over all character to a lonely boy. This is not the only consequence of loneliness.Another example of loneliness is portrayed in Sara Teasdale's, "The Solitary." The poem is basically about Sara explaining how she is better of by herself and how she does not need anyone. She also says that, "If I have myself and the drive of my will," (Teasdale 453). that she is better off. So she is stating that she only needs her creativity and her mind to keep her company. The way Sara wrote her poem makes the reader view her as a loner. She has no loved ones, well, they care about her, she doesn’t care anything about them. In her words, "let them think I love them more than I do." (Teasdale 453). So she has a bitter heart toward her loved ones. They can think whatever they want about her. However, Sara does not concern herself with what anyone thinks because she is content with herself and the way she is. She feels self complete, "as a flower or a stone." (Teasdale 453). She obviously feels good about herself, as does nature. But Sara always "went serenely down her own path, marching to the beat of a different drum." (Sprague 99-100). Just because some consequences are bad, does not mean that they all are. In Sara's case, it caused her to become a great poet.Finally, the consequence that loneliness can cause are also present in Robert Frost's, "Death of the Hired Man." The hired man in this poem is a silent lonely guy that comes home to die because he has no friends or no family. One day his family is talking about him and a woman asks what good he is and, "who else will harbor him?" (Frost 569). The hired man is such a loner, that he has no where else to go so the guy that the woman is talking to calmly replies, "I shouldn't mind him bettering himself." (Frost 570). All this time the man is standing in the corner and he kind of looks over at them...
