This poem is Gothic. Gothic poems are characterized as extremely emotional, inherently sublime, and disturbing in atmosphere. They are psychologically anxious, mysterious and dark caused by frustration, despair, madness, and death. Those characterizations are presented in two lines: “O God! Can I not save (21) / ‘One’ from the pitiless waves?” (22) Extreme emotion, frustration, despair and fear of death, is present when the author cries, “O God!” (21). Awe inherent in the sublime is present when the author realizes he cannot “save (21) / ‘One’” (22). The atmosphere is disturbing when the author refers to the waves as “pitiless” (22). The author identifies his psychological anxiety when he says the memories cannot be saved not even “One” (22).
