Question

What is meant by the lines ' and not a stone, Tell where I lie ' ?in poem solitude

Answer 1

Ode on Solitude

• Sataricsl poem Alexander Pope (1688-1744) in his 'Ode on Solitude' says to the reader, "And not a stone, tell where I lie". It is a poem about a happy man who is happy in his own ancestral acre of land. But in the given quotation he says that like the happy man he wants to remain unseen and unknown from the world. He wants no one to mourn for him after his death. Even he does not want any stone to say where he was buried after death.

Answer 2

In the poem Ode to Solitude, Alexander Pope eulogizes solitude. According to him the man who has plenty of solitude and lives away from the din of city life, having meagre needs, relying on the meagre parental resources, is the happiest of all.  

He also wishes to live a life of such solitude; and finally he wants to die in solitude without anyone knowing even where his grave is.