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Comment 3 of 3, added on July 18th, 2006 at 10:03 PM.
Powerful poem. Most times I don't think of the sea as a grave, yet after reading this, several images came to mind. The first three--The Titanic, Virginia Wolfe and Odysseus's mother. Then I started to think about the aged ritual where people would be burned at sea; how sailors, pirates...were "buried" at sea--and the most recent, the accounts of tsumani horrors. The movie, The Perfect Storm, came to mind. So many images...
I loved the lines "it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing,but you cannot stand in the middle of this". I sense there was the possibility of someone contemplating suicide, and the words are firm reasons that if the sea is the choice of death, one can not waiver--it is a commitment. Oh the other side, perhaps it is just a telling of how vast and powerful the sea is; that human strength can never master it.
dallas
Comment 2 of 3, added on January 25th, 2005 at 1:13 PM.
death is unescapable
sasa from Canada
Comment 1 of 3, added on October 1st, 2004 at 6:34 PM.
too cool!
Snev
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Powerful poem. Most times I don't think of the sea as a grave, yet after reading this, several images came to mind. The first three--The Titanic, Virginia Wolfe and Odysseus's mother. Then I started to think about the aged ritual where people would be burned at sea; how sailors, pirates...were "buried" at sea--and the most recent, the accounts of tsumani horrors. The movie, The Perfect Storm, came to mind. So many images...
I loved the lines "it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing,but you cannot stand in the middle of this". I sense there was the possibility of someone contemplating suicide, and the words are firm reasons that if the sea is the choice of death, one can not waiver--it is a commitment. Oh the other side, perhaps it is just a telling of how vast and powerful the sea is; that human strength can never master it.
dallas