The only sound filling the young boy’s ears is the distant chorus of seagulls yearning for their next meal. He opens his eyes; the sunlight blinding him for a brief moment. Once his sight was restored, he stared at the crystal blue sea longingly. Dead calm, there wasn’t a ripple to be seen. The normal repetitive lapping of water against the tin boat was non-existent. Thoughts floated around his mind, never at rest.
Beneath the surface is a different world. Tranquil and untouched yet filled with life. Everything is forgotten as the boy lives in the moment, appreciating his surroundings. A countless number of Blue Cod pass by, seemingly oblivious to him. A forests of green seaweed serves as a home to many of the smaller fish. Bright colours
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It is messy and overgrown; protruding from his wetsuit hood. He has a tall and broad figure which stretches his wetsuit tight. He is only 16; his looks surpassing his age. Although this is not his first time diving, to him the sensation of breathing underwater is magnificent. Being several metres below the surface is hard to describe. Surrounded by beautiful fish and plants; truly breath-taking. He is at ease in the water and feels part of the environment in the underwater world.
Red crayfish shelter under huge boulders and in small crevasses, aware of the looming danger. As the boy reaches in, the regulator is knocked from his mouth. His blue eyes spread wide portraying his panic. He desperately grapples in the empty space above his shoulder for the air tube. The first breath of air is hesitant, ensuring he doesn’t gulp down a mouthful of salt water. Through the disturbed dust of the ocean floor he can see his dive buddy laughing in hysterics.
There is very little sound underwater. Occasionally you can hear the cries of your dive buddy celebrating his catch. On this occasion the boy was diving with his best friend meaning there is no need for verbal communication. Intentions and emotions are presented by hand signals and facial
He teaches the kid what to do in order to successfully reel in a large, beautiful fish. Ironically, the narrator is the one who learns from the kid in the end. At the beginning of the story, everything is described negatively, from the description of the kid as a “lumpy little guy with baggy shorts” to his “stupid-looking ’50s-style wrap-around sunglasses” and “beat-up rod”(152). Through his encounter with the boy, the narrator is able to see life in a different way, most notable from how he describes the caught tarpon as heavy, silvery white, and how it also has beautiful red fins (154). Through the course of the story, the narrator’s pessimistic attitude changes to an optimistic one, and this change reveals how inspiring this exchange between two strangers is. This story as a whole reveals that learning also revolves around interactions between other people, not only between people and their natural surroundings and
uncovers the truth about the fish, and how it and its environment was abused by the old
A fisherman sits in his boat on the open sea, alone save for the fish below the water’s surface. The calmness of the ocean is disrupted by something underneath, something big. Fear seeps through the fisherman’s heart as he sees the shiny gray dorsal fin pierce the sun-glinted surface of the ocean. The creature stops its ritual and pulls its head out of the water, revealing the face of a great white: scars from countless battles in the ocean’s depths, a mouth full of lethal daggers, and dark, savage eyes.
"The water of the Gulf stretched out before her, gleaming with the million lights of the sun. The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in the abysses of solitude. All along the white beach, up and down, there was no living thing in sight. A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled down, down to the water." Chapter XXXIX
(47) " All along the white beach, up and down, there was no living thing in sight. A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling down, down to the water.when she was there beside the sea, absolutely alone, she cast the unpleasant, pricking garments from her, and for the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air, at the mercy of the sun, the breeze that beat upon her, and the waves that invited her. How strange and awful it seemed to stand naked under the sky! how delicious!
Kelly, Joseph. The Seagull Reader Poems Second Edition. New York: W.W Norton and Company, 2001.
“I had been born into a raging ocean where I swam relentlessly, flailing my arms in hope of rescue, of reaching a shoreline I never sighted. Never solid ground beneath me, never a resting place. I had lived with only the desperate hope to stay afloat; that and nothing more. But when at last I wrote my first words in the page, I felt an island rising beneath my feet like the back of a whale”.
The ocean is mysterious to mankind. The unfathomable vastness of the ocean intrigues humanity into exploring it. In life, the immense possibilities that lie in the future compel us to reach for the stars. In the poem “The Story” by Karen Connelly, an individual willingly swims into deep waters even though they are fearful of what may exist in the waters. The swimmer later finds out that their fears were foolish, which illustrates the human tendency to venture into the unknown. The theme conveyed in this poem is that life is like a rough, uncertain, uncontrollable ocean that we must find get through with experience.
The foamy wavelets curled up to her white feet and coiled like serpents about her ankles. She walked out. The water was chill but she walked on. The water was deep, but she lifted her white body and reached out with a long, sweeping stroke. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
The repetition of sound causes different feelings of uncertainty and fear as the reader delves deeper into the poem. “Moss of bryozoans/blurred, obscured her/metal...” (Hayden 3). The r’s that are repeated in blurred and obscured create a sense of fogginess of the darkness of the water that the speaker is experiencing. The fogginess is a sense of repression, which is attempting its way out of the mind to the conscious. Hayden continues the use of alliteration with F and S sounds. Although they are different letters they produce the same sound that causes confusion, but an acceptance of death. “Yet in languid/frenzy strove, as/one freezing fights off/sleep desiring sleep;/strove against/ the canceling arms that/suddenly surrounded/me...” (Hayden 4). The use of sound at the last six lines of the poem causes the reader to feel the need for air and the fear of death. “Reflex of life-wish?/Respirators brittle/belling? Swam from/the ship somehow; /somehow began the/measured rise” (Hayden 4). The R sounds that begin is the swimming through the water. The B sound that continues right after in “brittle belling” is the gasp of air, and finally, the S sounds that finish the line by creating a soft feeling. As if the reader might not get out in time, even though the lines are saying that the speaker does escape the ship. The fear the alliteration evokes from the reader is the unconscious. The deep inner thoughts that no one wants to tap into. The speaker is accepting the idea of death in the ocean through his unconscious, but his conscious mind is trying to push back and begin the “measured rise” (Hayden 4) back to the
Next, the Albatross gives the sailors a feeling of prosperity, while the Raven gives the old man a feeling of remorse. The Raven’s presence and repeatedly saying “Nevermore” reminds the...
Sad disappointments in several plans which I had sketched for my future life; the necessity of doing something for myself, united to a naturally roving disposition, had now conspired within me, to send me to sea as a sailor” (43). Here his father’s death puts pressure on him to work as a sailor. The oppressive society forces him to leave his comfort zone, his home, his class, and makes him helpless and unprotected. When he leave his home, he thought everything would be fine as he dreamt as a child. He says, “Yes, I will go to sea; cut my kind uncles and aunts, and sympathizing patrons, and leave no heavy hearts but those in my own home, and take none along but the one which aches in my bosom. Cold, bitter cold as December, and bleak as its blasts, seemed the world then to me; there is no misanthrope like a boy disappointed; and such was I, with the warmth of me flogged out by adversity” (52). The hardship in the village and the poverty make him a “misanthrope.” He hates his environment and he wants to leave the village. He desires a welcoming world full of
This dramatic play kit is something different that will enter the center and that is mainly my objective for the children to have something new to play with. Stated in the Early Learning Framework my main objective is to provide a fun and engaging experience to the children while helping the “understand how their own actions may affect nature and the plant (36). This will be done by discussion of what animals live in the water and how everything has a home, and the water is home to many animals. Though fishing is a fun activity, it isn’t our job to take all the fish from their homes forever, practicing catch and release. We can also ask the children how we can keep the water clean for the animals and what is our role in the environment to keep the animals in the
"The Seafarer" creates a storyline of a man who is "lost" at sea. There is a major reference to the concept of the sea and how it "captures" the soul and leaves a lonely feeling. The character is set to know the consequence of the sea but something keeps calling him back to it. "And yet my heart wanders away, My soul roams with sea, the whales' home, wandering to the widest corners of the world, returning ravenous with desire, Flying solitary, screaming, exciting me to the ocean, breaking oaths on the curve of a wave." (lines 58-64).
Through metaphors, the speaker proclaims of her longing to be one with the sea. As she notices The mermaids in the basement,(3) and frigates- in the upper floor,(5) it seems as though she is associating these particular daydreams with her house. She becomes entranced with these spectacles and starts to contemplate suicide.