Solitude Dichotomy

Ella Wheeler Wilcox fabricated an overall sensible tone using diction and dichotomy in her poem Solitude. Diction is defined as an author's’ selection and utilization of words or phrases in speech or writing. Wilcox employs various words with assorted connotations. To elaborate, Wilcox describes the results of someone’s actions as if someone were to laugh, then “the world laughs with you; / weep, and you weep alone” (Wilcox 1-2). Wilcox selects phrases such as “laughs with you” and “you weep alone.” Those phrases oppose one another as “laughing” and “crying” occur in opposite scenarios, and “with you” and “alone” refer to the quantity of company one has. When the author states “the world will laugh with you,” it implies that when someone is