Two Prisons Divided by a Gulf

Jean Vanier
20th century poetry Theme of Alienation:
“If you run away, well then you’ll enter into a world of dream. You’ll cut yourself from reality. If you walk towards—it’s not walking towards pain, it’s walking towards the person in pain. It’s not walking towards suffering, it’s walking towards people…The pain can be enfolded by love…But of course, in our hearts there is much fear of this, and it’s precisely this fear that takes away from the spirit of truth, that takes us into the world of a dream. It takes away into a world of loneliness”
Jean Vanier Filmed at the community of L’Arche, Trosly, France

20th century poetry was mostly about a human journey of some aspect based on feeling, the thought, and the inspiration of these certain journeys. Since this poem is based on the sentiment of alienation it talks about the isolated individual and the means barriers that would make a person isolated.

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