My poem is called “The Ocean” by Nathaniel Hawthorne.The speaker describes the depths of the ocean as tranquil and ghostly and the speaker also compares the worries of land to the peacefulness of the sea.This poem is about the death and afterlife that takes place under the sea and the peace that comes with it. The theme is about how above the ocean the waves are crazy and chaotic, but under the ocean it’s peaceful and calm, and the seamen who have died at sea are at the bottom peacefully at rest. The ocean is a frightful place, unfathomable, where many people have gone and few returned. .It mainly talks about the calmness and purity of the afterlife and how it is more pure than the resting on the earth’s surface. I chose this poem because I think it is a very good story and because my favorite season is summer and i love swimming in the ocean. The poem goes “The Ocean has its silent caves, Deep, quiet, and alone; Though there be fury on the waves, Beneath them there is none. The awful spirits of the deep. Hold their communion there; And there are those for whom we weep, The young, the bright, the fair. Calmly the wearied seamen rest Beneath their own blue sea. The ocean solitudes are blest, For there is purity. The earth has guilt, the earth has,care, Unquiet are its graves; But peaceful sleep is ever there, Beneath the dark blue waves.” “The ocean has it silent caves, deep, quiet, and alone” states a metaphor for graves and resting places for those who have died at sea
