Unhappiness in Human Beings Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 5 pages of analysis of Unhappiness in Human Beings.

Unhappiness in Human Beings Essay | Essay

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Unhappiness in Human Beings

Summary: Discusses the differences between carefreee animals and the burdens of humanity in Percy Blythe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark"
In Thomas De Quincey's essay "Confessions of an English Opium Eater," the speaker discusses the problems associated with drugs. He suggests that his "dreams were accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words" (971). However, sadness and gloom do not belong exclusively to addicts as Shelley points out in his poem "To a Skylark." The everyday man also faces the same problem as De Quincey's opium eater as human beings have a tendency to focus on life's sadness. In his poem, Shelley uses the joyous skylark as a contrast to man in order to express the idea that human beings live a seeming unfulfilled life as any pleasure found in life also comes with unhappiness.

The speaker describes the skylark as a happy creature completely pure in its joy and unhampered by sorrow or misery. As the speaker watches the bird, he notes...

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