There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
The words “rapture” and “lonely” create a juxtaposition between immense joy and solitude. Humans are by nature social creatures and thrive off of interaction with other people. This stanza opens up the movie “Into the Wild” which sets up on a stillness you can only find in nature. The movie focuses on the purity of nature and it’s quiet, refreshing, uncorrupted state. In “Into the Wild” a young adult who just graduated college embarks on a journey into the Alaskan wilderness all alone. 

There Is Pleasure In The Pathless Woods