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‘The City in the Sea’ by Edgar Allan Poe is a five-stanza poem that is separated into uneven sets of lines. The first, second, and fourth stanzas contain twelve lines, the third: six, and the fifth: twelve again.
‘The Ocean’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short sanguine poem about the peace that lost sailors find, after death, in the depths of the ocean. The poem begins by describing the ocean as having different sections.
Poetic Form: Ode. Time Period: 19th Century. Shelley deftly personifies the West Wind as a force of nature that holds the power to both destroy and renew in this poem. View Poetry + Review Corner. Poem Analyzed by Allisa Corfman. Degree in Secondary Education/English and Teacher of World Literature and Composition. Ode to the West Wind speaker.
This except is best known for its first lines that start with the phrase “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods” and end with “I love not Man the less, but Nature more.” They are some of Byron’s most commonly quoted lines and a wonderful start to his apostrophe to the ocean.
‘Crossing the Bar’ is a four-stanza poem that’s divided into sets of four lines, known as quatrains. These quatrains follow a consistent rhyme scheme of ABAB. The lengths of the lines vary, but the first and third tend to be a bit longer than the second and fourth.
As the speaker takes the reader deeper down into the ocean he passes the “abysmal sea.” “The Kraken” does not reside anywhere close to the surface, he is “Far, far” beneath all the layers of the ocean.
7 lis 2012 · Lord Byron’s Romantic Ode to the Ocean. Below is an excerpt of the last ten stanzas of Lord Byron’s ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,’ published originally in the 1810s. It may be read as an ode to the ocean, or perhaps an environmental poem. CLXXVII.
