Question

Could someone please help me analyze this poem?

So I'm working on anaylyzing this poem for school and I'm not quite sure how to answer one of the questions. I was wondering if perhaps someone could help me understand how to answer the question to this poem?

The question is, "How is the speaker defining being alone?"

The poem is "Alone" by Maya Angelou.


Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here a