Poetry: The Sea

Question 0

What is ‘The Sea’ about?

Answer 0

Persona is swimming in the sea and believes we come from nature and are to be reincarnated

Question 1

When was The Sea published and in what poetry collection?

Answer 1

1983 in American Primitive

Question 2

What is the message of ‘The sea’?

Answer 2

Battle between mind and body
Form of baptism
- become one with earth
- mundane becomes spiritual

Question 3

‘The Sea’ theme: evolution

• explain
• use quote/ example

Answer 3

Desire to be back in original state

- “body remembers that life and cries for the lost parts if itself”

Question 4

‘The Sea’ theme: return to beginning

• explain
• use quote/ example

Answer 4

Simpler intellect and understanding

- “in sucking genesis”

Question 5

‘The Sea’ theme: time is not exist et in the perfect beginning state

• explain
• use quote/ example

Answer 5

Everything in perfect harmony

• time is a human concept
• ‘roaring flamboyance, that perfect beginning and conclusion if it’s own’

Question 6

What is significant about the shape of the poem?

Answer 6

Structured/shaped like waves

- Vistula for reader