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I am teaching this poem today and am puzzled by it.
The "I" in the first stanza seems to be the sailer who
will drown, but it is not put in quotes. There is an
I in the last stanza who seems to be the author
who is drowning psychologically -- but it is pluralized, "we" and put in the past tense.
It's either brilliantly constructed or confusing.
Help!
Professor HR Wolf/SUNY at Buffalo
Dr. Howard R. Wolf from United States