This poem dramatizes the conflict that humans or people need one another to survive the cruel world. The title alone signifies a depressing and sad atmosphere for the poem. The speaker is unknown but they seem to have a curiosity about life while laying in bed late at night. The persona repeats “nobody / Can make it out here alone.”(9-10), trying to let mankind know that they have to change their ways of seeing life; everyone needs someone at some point in life.
The speaker initially starts with a pensive tone, laying in bed, pondering the meaning of life, trying to find kinship. The persona also brings religion into the poem by using paradox in lines 4 and 5, “Where water is not thirsty / And bread loaf is not stone,” in Matthew 4:3, Satan tries to turn stone into bread, which is something bad. By saying that bread loaf isn 't stone, in the poem, means that people have done the mistake of changing it. So is the speaker trying to say that people make many mistakes or are they just questioning
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On lines 14 and 15, the speaker says how millionaires have money they can’t use, therefore money is materialistic and not fulfilling. In line 16, humor is applied, and simile is used, by comparing wives to banshees. The wives of rich men were only marrying them for the money and all the wives just gossiped, meaning that the men were unhappy. The children were as well because, in line 17, they were singing the blues symbolizing that they were sad. On the same stanza, the speaker uses a metaphor “They’ve got expensive doctors / to cure their hearts of stone.”(18-19). The symbolism in this was that rich people went to the doctor so they can prescribe them medication to make them feel better, about their loneliness, but in reality, it wasn’t going to work. So at the end of the stanza they repeated the message, “But nobody / No, nobody / Can make it our here