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This poem is brilliant satire. Smith undermines those who claim God is dead just to be seen as fashionable and risque. It is not as some have suggested a poem in favour of Christianity but a nice attack on arrogant philosophers.
John V. Jackson should have elaborated... the sea/drowning is linked in both, the drowning occurs due to people's preoccupation with themselves. Here it is their own fault as they prattle on and debate, whereas in 'Not Waving But Drowning' the man is a victim as his 'friends' are so preoccupied with themselves.
tomas from United Kingdom