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Despite its title, Oceanic is much more than a love letter to the ocean. Full of poems that are passionate about the environment without being preachy, that beautifully name and describe the natural world, and that honor self, love, and family, Oceanic is a celebration of nature and of life itself.” —Jeannine Hall Gailey, The Rumpus The first of the five sections of ‘The Dry Salvages’ is especially worth reading for its comparative analysis of the river and the sea. The ‘strong brown’ river is the Mississippi, which is ‘untamed and intractable’, and has served as a frontier and as a conduit for commerce. But unlike the river, which is within us, the sea is all about us. The river is a ‘god’, but the sea has ‘many gods’ and ‘many voices’: a polytheistic force of nature. Is this the greatest English poem about a sea-voyage? Coleridge’s friend and collaborator was sceptical about its merits, and toyed with removing it from subsequent editions of their landmark collection Lyrical Ballads (1798). If your class enjoyed this metaphor poem exercise, why not try one of our other recommended resources to round out your lesson plan?

In “Secrets of the Sea,” Assan provides commentary on the Syrian refugee crisis. The poem is for Alan Kurdi , a three-year-old Syrian boy whose name made global headlines in 2015 after he drowned in the mediterranean sea, but it is also for all the other refugees that lost their lives. Assan says Kurdi’s name changed the world, while others’ names remain “secrets of the sea.” The sea’s withdrawal is not a matter of human desire, but of its own motion: the tides decide, not the speaker. The line from this expression of the sea’s independence of human desire and of the limits of the human when confronted by the sea would ultimately find its expression in the “undulating Rooms” of Fr. 1446A, the “abhorred abode,” of Fr. 1542[B], and the “syllableless sea” of Fr. 1689[A]. Oceanic is a generous, romantic, and ambitious look at the different stages of life, and how we experience the love and wonder that lead us to become more fully realized and compassionate as we grow each decade… [it’s] Nezhukumatathil’s most cohesive collection to date, as she takes her prior preoccupations and dissects them in new ways that invite, as all of her work does, a sense of marvel and astonishment.” — Tin HouseDesire is also the main current of The European Eel, Steve Ely’s lush recreation of the incredible transatlantic migration eels undertake to their spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea. Little is known about their ocean-going lives, but in Ely’s telling it becomes a testimony to life’s irrepressibility. A female eel will gradually consume her own body to fuel the journey, “reducing herself to the seed of her species’ future”. It culminates in an ecstatic account of eel sex, coiling in billowing clouds of golden milt and ova, “sparks from the cornucopian flame / of Archaea’s unkillable, dark pleroma”. At the same time, while the ocean and death intertwined may sound weird but I understood why even seasoned poets write about these two together. This act of “glancing down” resonates in powerful consequences. The final lines of “Invitation” offer a question—“Who knows what will happen next?”—that also presents a significant opportunity. What happens next, it turns out, is not only the possibility of a different perception of the sea but also the potential for sensing the world itself entirely and radically anew: It is likely that children will find it easier to write about certain topics (like the creatures that live under the sea, for example) in a rhyming poem as the rhyming words will lead them to think of other words that are associated with these words and rhymes.

In this oceanic spirit, Nezhukumatathil’s poems wander an abundance of the planet’s most “humming” places, transporting readers from the Pumpkin Festival in Clarence, New York to the existential sadness of a whale washed ashore on Germany’s North Sea coastline—from the Monte San Salvatore funicular in Switzerland to the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s famous Glass Flowers—and from the elephants and bamboo forest of India’s Periyar National Park to the “cicada-electric Mississippi night.” Likewise, they devote considerable attention to spaces and places that hum in quieter ways: a fresh manicure, a shared brambleberry tart, a childhood bedroom, Prince’s “Starfish and Coffee.” These, without exception, are poems replete with images that last and linger: “the toothy grin of an apple-fed horse,” “the penny-taste of the garden hose,” the “blush-green current of auroras across [a penguin’s] claws.” Fig. 5. AC 82-7/8, “On this wondrous sea – sailing silently –,” about summer 1858. Courtesy of Amherst College Archives & Special Collections. For link, see: https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/asc:15595/asc:15604 An English romantic poet, Smith is known as a key figure in the revival of the English sonnet. In this sonnet, the speaker gazes upon a person locally known as a lunatic pacing about a tall cliff above the sea. He is sad, moody, and murmurs to himself, but she says “I see him more with envy than with fear;” because she believes his ignorance provides him bliss. “He seems (uncursed with reason) not to know / The depth or the duration of his woe.”

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The simple vocabulary and rhymes paired with the colourful images of sea life make it an easy poem for children to follow. It will also hopefully help them to use their imaginations to visualise some of the creatures that can be found under the sea! The ocean has played an important part in poetry from its inception, which explains why there are so many ocean poems in literature. It’s simple to understand why. ‎ Oceanic] is an important work, both for its poetic merits and for its incisive capture of the increasingly precarious nature of life, both human and nonhuman, on this planet.” — Ploughshares Fig. 2. AC 506, “Water makes many / Beds,” about 1877. Courtesy Amherst College Archives & Special Collections. For link, see: https://acdc.amherst.edu/search/Water+makes+many+beds from the poetic structures that cultivate dazzling settings to the metaphors that brim with possibility, Oceanic… reawakens my curiosity for a world that still holds so many undiscovered wonders.” — Literary Review

The author of this article, Dr Oliver Tearle, is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University. He is the author of, among others, The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers’ Journey Through Curiosities of History and The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem. The ocean’s grandeur and beauty are breathtaking. From scientists and chemists to explorers and mariners, the ocean and its complete ecology captivate, enthrall, and delight multitudes of people all over the world. With unparalleled ease, she’s able to weave each intriguing detail into a nuanced, thought-provoking poem that also reads like a startling modern-day fable.” —Poetry Foundation Did you know? The sea covers more than 70 percent of the surface of our planet. That’s a lot of space for sea creatures to roam. What’s more, over 80 percent of the ocean remains unexplored – meaning no one has ever been there or knows what could be living down there. The ocean is a calm, serene and beautiful work of nature that can evoke tranquility. We hope you found these poems exciting.Let us now go through some poems on ocean in English. These poems about the sea remind us that oceans have an impact on our lives and livelihoods of our loved ones, no matter how far off the beach we reside. 1. The Ocean Fig. 7. AC 84-5/6, “The Brain – is wider than the / Sky –,” about summer 1863. Courtesy of Amherst College Archives & Special Collections. For link, see: https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/asc:1457/asc:1469

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