1. The Ocean By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Samantha Lanham

2. Chord
A man steps out of sunlight,
sunlight that streams like grace,
still gaping at blue sky
staked across the emptiness of space,
into a history where shadows
assume a human face.
A man slips into silence
that began as a cry,
still trailing music
although reduced to the sigh
of an accordion
as it folds into its case.
The Ocean

3. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Nathaniel was the only son, and had two sisters. His father died when he was 4. He died at sea of yellow fever.
A leg injury at early age left Nathaniel immobile for several months, and this is when he became interested in reading.
His wealthy uncles sent him to college , but he missed his mother and two sisters and returned home for a 12 yr stay.
Health and looks began failing, hair turning white and slowly losing thoughts.
Hawthorne refused to see a doctor, and later died in sleep in 1864.

4. Structures of the poem:
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.
Hawthorne uses 2 stanzas, and has a total of 16 lines.
This poem is a lyric poem because the author expresses his mood towards earth and the ocean.
Has a rhyme scheme of 6 different rhyming pairs.
2 sets of approximate rhyme

5. Speaker of the poem:
The speaker of the poem is a family lost at sea or have had a family member die on sea.
The poem uses depressed language
I sense that it is something bad that has happened before because of the clues. They have a dark style and make it seem depressing.

6. The Ocean has its silent caves, A
Deep, quiet, and alone; B
Though there be fury on the waves, A
Beneath them there is none. B
The awful spirits of the deep C
Hold their communion there; D
And there are those for whom we weep, C
The young, the bright, the fair. D
Calmly the wearied seamen rest E
Beneath their own blue sea. F
The ocean solitudes are blest, E
For there is purity. F
The earth has guilt, the earth has care, D
Unquiet are its graves; A
But peaceful sleep is ever there, D
Beneath the dark blue waves. A
End rhyme
Ending rhymes are in each line at the end. It creates a mood in the poem.

7. Literary elements
End rhyme- every line ends with a rhyming word to another line.
The Ocean has its silent caves, A
Deep, quiet, and alone; B
Though there be fury on the waves, A
Beneath them there is none. B
The awful spirits of the deep C
Hold their communion there; D
And there are those for whom we weep, C
The young, the bright, the fair. D
Calmly the wearied seamen rest E
Beneath their own blue sea. F
The ocean solitudes are blest, E
For there is purity. F
The earth has guilt, the earth has care, D
Unquiet are its graves; A
But peaceful sleep is ever there, D
Beneath the dark blue waves. A
Metaphor- comparison of 2 unlike things in which one thing is said to be another.
example: “the young, the bright, the fair”
Shows that the family members were young and are in a bad situation.
Personification- giving unhuman characters, character traits.
This expresses a mood and shows what is really important with it standing out.
Sensory image- 5 senses used in a poem to express feelings.

8. Imagery-
helps create a picture or image. Hawthorne uses this to give the ocean characteristics, trying to tell the readers what the ocean really is, how it acts towards us.
“The earth has guilt, the earth has care,
Unquiet are its graves”
“but peaceful sleep is ever there”
The peaceful sleep is also known as death.

9. imagery
“for there is purity”
“The awful spirts of the deep”

10. Meanings Literal figurative
The ocean is a dark place where mysterious things can happen unexpectedly, and the spirits haunt.
People have died in the seas and their souls haunt the ocean “making it dark”.

11. Authors purpose
Remember the people who die/died at sea and how they died at sea. Everyone dies at unexpected times, always cherish the moments.

12. Theme
Never doubt the sea, something bad could happen.

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