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11 sie 2019 · This simple step-by-step guide helps poetry seekers learn how to find the full-text or lines from poems online.
‘Apostrophe to the Ocean’ by Lord Byron is an excerpt from Byron’s long, epic poem ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.’ The excerpt includes seven stanzas from the poem, starting with stanza CLXXVIII, or 178, and ending with stanza 184.
The Ocean has its silent caves, Deep, quiet, and alone; Though there be fury on the waves, Beneath them there is none. The awful spirits of the deep. Hold their communion there; And there are those for whom we weep, The young, the bright, the fair. Calmly the wearied seamen rest.
Analysis (ai): This poem captures a moment of shared awe between a father and his young son, Kit. They ascend a dune overlooking a storm-tossed ocean, its waves leaping and crashing. The father, pondering what to convey to his son, highlights the vastness of the vista and the power of the sea.
‘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.
10 mar 2019 · This line serves to expand the narrative and give a feeling of adventure to the poem whilst also being a metaphor for man’s reliance on nature to survive and thrive as the man-made boat is tied to ‘a willow tree’.
21 sty 2018 · The ocean -- wild and calm, dangerous and beautiful -- is a made up of contradictions and mystery. Here are some of the best ocean poems to capture the sea.
