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Kiana Dehmand
9th Honors Lit
Jamison
11/17/15

Poetry out Loud TPFASTT Revision

*Title (part 1): The Ocean by Nathaniel Hawthorne can easily be mistaken as a poem simply
about the ocean. For me, before I read the poem I thought that and how the text and figurative
language in the poem would directly be talking about just the ocean. I thought that it would talk
about the colors, smells, feels, and overall anything that people would first think of when the
word ocean is brought up to them. Although this alone would be a perfect read of a poem in my
opinion, it was so much more complex than I originally had thought.
*Paraphrase: Deep in the peerless caves of the ocean. No creature holds presence there. It stays
still peacefully despite the fast, strong, and dreadful waves from above. Within the peace from
beneath, the oceans unknown spirits hold their thoughts in their home with the blue water
surrounding them. And there are those for whom we grief, trapped there. Yet, they rest calmly in
their just as calm blue sea, unbothered by the earths unquiet souls. Though there will always be
heartbreak in the earth, solitude and sleep in always there beneath the dark, blue waves.
*Figurative Devices: ~ Rhyme: Some words at the end dont rhyme yet a rhyme scheme is
noticeable being: A,B,A,C,D,E,D,F. For example, caves and waves (Lines 1 and 3) and
weep and deep (Lines 5 and 7).

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~Personification: Though there be fury on the waves (Line 3). Giving waves the human quality
of having intense anger meaning the waves look violent due to strong winds or a storm. The
earth has guilt, the earth has care, unquiet are its graves. (Lines 13 and 14). Giving the earth the
human emotions of having guilt and care and also referring to its graves as unquiet/not at rest.
*Attitude: The tone sounds neutral and formal yet it sounds like it has a lot of emotion in it,
hidden by the indirect texts of describing the ocean. For example addiction of heat break can be
heard in the lines saying, And there are those for whom we weep, The young, the bright, the
fair. (Lines 7 and 8).
*Shifts: The poet uses a lot of shifts when he talks about the things like Though there be fury on
the waves, (Line 3) and Unquiet are its graves; (Line 14) but then writes in the next lines,
Beneath them there is none. (Line 4) and But peaceful sleep is ever there, (Line 15).
He replaces negative attributes and sayings with positive phrases.
*Speaker: The speaker of the poem sounds like someone who is trying to tell an indirect story of
the hardships and ease that life comes with. They connect reality and to the ocean, trying to say
that life has its ups and downs and what you see on the outside does not determine the inside
*Title (part 2): After reading more carefully and trying to find hidden meanings, this poems title,
in my opinion, was not meant for a story just about the ocean. The Ocean can serve as an indirect
term for something else which the reader can find more about with careful reading.
*Theme: The theme of this poem can be multiple things with each being just as significant as the
other. One being, to find a balance and to accept the different emotions that come with life, on
being negative emotions and the other being positive of course. Another could be bout the pain
of heart break and finding peaceful place, etc. to cope with feelings there.