Adress The Moon
How sweet the silver Moon's pale ray,
Falls trembling on the distant bay,
O'er which the breezes sigh no more,
Nor billows lash the sounding shore.
Say, do the eyes of those I love,
Behold thee as thou soar'st above,
Lonely, majestic and serene,
The calm and placid evening's Queen?
Say, if upon thy peaceful breast,
Departed spirits find their rest,
For who would wish a fairer home,
Than in that bright, refulgent dome?
The Ocean
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.
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.
4 comments:
The first poem talk about a beach where a great battle took place, and the poeple living or dead that are around there are restless. It says how it seems that nature itself has left this forsaken place,and will instead go to a better place.
The 2nd poem was a piece describing the purity of the ocean and that no matter what happened to it, it would seem that the surface had not been marred nor scarred.
I believe the " Address to the Moon" is about a young man who has just lost his lover. He is then asking the moon to be her final resting place after death "For who would wish a fairer home,
Than in that bright, refulgent dome?"
(@Shipley- kind of reminds me of Sokka and Yue O_-)
The Ocean
The narrator speaks in the first paragraph about how the bottom of the ocean holds nothing except the souls of the departed.
The second paragraph speaks about how a watery grave has more benifits than a grave on land.
The ocean solitudes are blest,
For there is purity.
The earth has guilt, the earth has care,
Unquiet are its graves;
The narrator say thatthe sea is the ultimate and most perfect resting place for sea bearing folk, for the land has cares and worries that follow them to the grave, but the sea has nothing like that, only freedom.
Through these two poems, there are strong tones about life after death and what each afterlife may hold. In the first, the man wants his beloved to be happy, or be in the most loveliest place he can imagine: the moon. The second says the the sea is the ideal resting place because the only thing that follows you into the next life, opposed to the land, is freedom.
I agree with ^ uhhh Kastia? above me here, about the context of the first poem. I noticed how both poems seemed to be about death and nature. And the peacefulness of nature.
I also think Alex may have read the wrong poem, or even the same poem twice and just interpreted it in two different ways. But I'm pretty sure there’s no beach in either of these poems. Correct me if I'm wrong and I just read the wrong one.
I too agree with Kastia on her views toward these poems. I think the first poem is about a man who truly just wants to go to rest on the moon. The second poem tells of how the ocean is a completely flawless place to die compared to the rigidness of the earth. When you let yourself go into the sea everything will gently flow where as the earth will only hold your regrets and bring thoughts of uneasiness.
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