The+Seafarer

**The Seafarer**
This is a poem that portrays the difficulties of life at sea and the meaninglessness of life on the land.

Analysis-
T nt of the sailor's dismal life at sea.

The poem connotates a melancholy atmosphere in which the author/ subject speaks of his internal conflict relating to his external conflict concerning life at sea or life on land because.

The Seafarer takes on a thematic structure due to the conflicts and uncertainties of the author as he describes his life at sea. For example in lines 27-30 "And who could believe, knowing but the passions of cities, swelled proud with wine and no taste of misfortune, how often, how warily, I put myself back on the paths of the sea."

The setting is the source of conflict in essence the entire plot of the poem rests within the setting of the SEA.

Imagery is used within the setting as well as within metaphors to give a sense of gray, melancholy attitude reflected upon the audience to envoke these emotions. " My feet were cast in icy bands, bound with frost, with frozen chains, and hardship groaned around my heart. Hunger tore at my sea-weary soul. No man sheltered on the quiet fairness of earth can feel how wretched i was, driftin through winter on an ice cold sea, whirles in sorrow, alone in a world blown clear of love, hung with icicles." That paints a pretty picture!

The primary conflict in this poem is that of a hard, lonely life at sea or of an unfulfilled meaningless life on land.

The words and sounds are slow and methodical just like that of a gray, solemn ocean that the poem is portraying thoughout the course of the text. The poem uses double meanings when it discusses a life on the sea whilst examining the inter conflict of the subject of the poem, that is to say the narrator.

The poem is definitely referring to an earlier time seeing as now when one associates with life at sea or on a boat it is not solitary and thus this reference and imagery would not have the same effect relating to this day in age.

This poem does not refer to life on land or even life at sea as a happy place concerned with love, friendships, material wealth or other such goals that humans are attributed to trying to attain.