Loneliness and the poet: Robert W. Service

The subject of loneliness has received inadequate attention at the hands of psychoanalysts. As a matter of great psychopathologic significance, the topic requires urgent attention. Its components and consequences are more complex than one realizes at first glance. As a great concern of mankind loneliness is naturally seized upon by poets, who dwell upon it in their work, whether or not they are consciously aware of it. These points have been studied in this essay by a scrutiny of the life and work of the poet, Robert W. Service.