FF Word of the Day: ALONE

[Jenny]

The first line of the Poem: As I have gone ALONE in there....

Definition of ALONE:


Definition of alone (adjective)
1 : separated from others : isolated was alone in the office
2 : exclusive of anyone or anything else : only She alone knows what happened.
3 a : considered without reference to any other The children alone would eat that much.
b : incomparable, unique They are alone among their contemporaries in this respect.




Synonym Discussion of alone
alone, solitary, lonely, lonesome, lone, forlorn, desolate mean isolated from others. alone stresses the objective fact of being by oneself with slighter notion of emotional involvement than most of the remaining terms. ⟨everyone needs to be alone sometimes⟩ solitary may indicate isolation as a chosen course ⟨glorying in the calm of her solitary life⟩ but more often it suggests sadness and a sense of loss. ⟨left solitary by the death of his wife⟩ lonely adds to solitary a suggestion of longing for companionship. ⟨felt lonely and forsaken⟩ lonesome heightens the suggestion of sadness and poignancy. ⟨an only child often leads a lonesome life⟩ lone may replace lonely or lonesome but typically is as objective as alone. ⟨a lone robin pecking at the lawn⟩ forlorn stresses dejection, woe, and listlessness at separation from one held dear. ⟨a forlorn lost child⟩ desolate implies inconsolable grief at loss or bereavement. ⟨desolate after her brother's death⟩



Definition of alone (adverb)
1 : solely, exclusively The blame is mine alone.
2 : without aid or support He said he could do it alone.

[Jenny]

What definition do you apply to the word in the poem? or do you apply a different meaning to it?

[mikemarcum879]

Aug 13, 2018 6:43:45 GMT -5 Jenny said:

The first line of the Poem: As I have gone ALONE in there....

Definition of ALONE:


Definition of alone (adjective)
1 : separated from others : isolated was alone in the office
2 : exclusive of anyone or anything else : only She alone knows what happened.
3 a : considered without reference to any other The children alone would eat that much.
b : incomparable, unique They are alone among their contemporaries in this respect.




Synonym Discussion of alone
alone, solitary, lonely, lonesome, lone, forlorn, desolate mean isolated from others. alone stresses the objective fact of being by oneself with slighter notion of emotional involvement than most of the remaining terms. ⟨everyone needs to be alone sometimes⟩ solitary may indicate isolation as a chosen course ⟨glorying in the calm of her solitary life⟩ but more often it suggests sadness and a sense of loss. ⟨left solitary by the death of his wife⟩ lonely adds to solitary a suggestion of longing for companionship. ⟨felt lonely and forsaken⟩ lonesome heightens the suggestion of sadness and poignancy. ⟨an only child often leads a lonesome life⟩ lone may replace lonely or lonesome but typically is as objective as alone. ⟨a lone robin pecking at the lawn⟩ forlorn stresses dejection, woe, and listlessness at separation from one held dear. ⟨a forlorn lost child⟩ desolate implies inconsolable grief at loss or bereavement. ⟨desolate after her brother's death⟩



Definition of alone (adverb)
1 : solely, exclusively The blame is mine alone.
2 : without aid or support He said he could do it alone.

Ok so could the comment ff said only two can keep a secret if one of them are dead.
So would "AS." be revering "AS." him self every other time he went in there along.So this would mean the secret ain't no secret at all because No one have ever been in there with ff. A rabbit hole comment.

[CJ]

I always believed that this had double meaning - "in his mind" and "in the hiding spot". I believe that AS meant "beacuse"...with the meaning something like this:

Because I went alone into the hiding spot and I went with my treasures (memories/gold) bold (is he bold or the treasure?)
I can keep my "secret where" ( the secret where is the place - and he can do this "because" he went ALONE)
and hint of riches new and old....he can keep the secret and he can hint....all because he went alone....

I'm sure everyone has thought of it that way before...I'm just not sure how much that first stanza matters - other than to tell you something about what he did or why he went alone, etc... that only he knows the answers.

[deeepthkr]

Oh plz don't do yourself a disservice by not putting most of your thoughts into this stanza. Btw he made a point of letting us know that he knows one can't end a sentence with a colon. So the poem may just contain another sentence you weren't a where uv. AloNEIN "there", from <there it's no. Nein=no. So I rote a, Poe(m) containing Nein/No clues. So my original thought day one was that nine wasnt a quantity but a quality. Ex: long/lats with 9's, off Rd 9, etc. So if the poem contains NO clues then we must be looking for clues described by knowing. No?