On the sea Flashcards
summary
fist 8 lines of the sonnet - the speaker capture the seas changing moods -its power and days where its calmer
Volta line 9 suddenly addresses someone - the speaker instructs this person to look and hear the sea
in other words if the modern , urban world has made you weary of life , experience the sea to awaken you
context
when he was staying at the isle of white
passage from lear - tragedy
the sublime - Romanticism - humbled by human significance
Tintin abbey - daffodils
being in nature
nature and humanity
structure
octave
envelope ABBA
sestet CDEDEC- waiting for rhyme
ends in a epiphany
“eternal whispering “
trying to form a linguistic connection with the sea
beckoning - provacative
divine , magical , supernatural , spiritual
“desolate shores “
sibilance
“gluts”
greed
octave
can be slit into two
power then gentelness
structural contrast
rhyme as well
“of Hecate leaves hem their old shadowy sound “
god like quality
synesthesia
softness
“Oh , ye!”
archaic soloutin
to directly adrerss a specific listner
“feast “
metaphor
sensual gauging
oh ye
repetition
advice is excessive
sentance structure
direct adresss
emphasis on nature being the cure - old fashoioned , archeic
uproar rude
the noise of london
negative
sit ye near some old cavebs mouth and brood ,
until ye start , as if the sea nymphs quired !
overuns the metre - hyperineric line - suggesting of excess
ye srart - un nessesary force
waking up enlightenment
sea nymphs -
