o the weariness of workers in the modern world, people who are forced to labor their lives away until there is absolutely nothing left. He deplores this kind of life, and has tried to break free of it through his poetry and other writings. The danger is that man loses his spirit - the spirit usually represented by nature - because of such labor. And yet Arnold also realizes that escaping this life of labor (as the Scholar-Gipsy did) presents new challenges, since it requires that person to eschew all connections to society. Living a life of labor is tiring, but escaping is itself a burden, requiring exceptional courage.