In a lonely place,
I encountered a sage
Who sat, all still,
Regarding a newspaper.
He accosted me:
“Sir, what is this?”
Then I saw that I was greater,
Aye, greater than this sage.
I answered him at once,
“Old, old man, it is the wisdom of the age.”
The sage looked upon me with admiration.
In a lonely place,
Analysis, meaning and summary of Stephen Crane's poem In a lonely place,
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luv these poom
The information of the modern world outdoes the ancient one . The poet in Crane , installing the image of the news paper artistically does this .
compare with: “the first shall be the last and the last shall be the first” JC
Also: collective social progress vs individual advance (however great)
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I like this pome because it says the truth about what we all feel when we ar alone.