At the start of the poem it seems as if the author describes the lake in the quarry to be quiet and lifeless yet inviting. Then suddenly the author introduces the woman with metaphors to water like creatures. This makes the reader keep guessing what the author is talking about, but after they realise that the woman is being described like an animal, because she’s eager to dive into the water. This leads to one of the themes of life and a new adventure. As the author describes the woman's descent into the water it seems as if she's a diver because of the contextual clues. The example of frog like fins lead us to believe she's a snorkeler until the verse “breathing out silver ball bearing”, leads me to believe he's diving because he can't breath
