Engraving on cloth. Frame: 28 in x 37 in; 71.1 cm x 94 cm; Image: 13 1/2 in x 22 1/2 in; 34.3 cm x 57.1 cm. AC EDM 2003.179. only my mind is not present and I can't control where I go, I can't remember where I go, im mindless. Im walking on an ocean. An ocean of happiness I can't baptize myself in. The ocean gets more wet except the ocean is filled with sweat, sweat from running from all my problems. Exhaustion fills my body. That is the pure moment I realize I am asleep, the wetness is beads of sweat on my forehead from the 16th night terror this week.

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.”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’s waters are riddled with mysteries that have yet to be solved. You’ll discover some of them if you go through these beautiful ocean poems. ‎ 1. The Ocean Unlike W. B. Yeats in ‘Lapis Lazuli’, where the poet sees the robustness of civilisation embodied by the rebuilding of culture and societies over different historical periods, Housman emphasises the ultimate futility of building empires or making anything. 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 Fig 3. While the original manuscript of this poem is lost, the above fragment (AC 169, about 1880?) is extant. Courtesy of the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections. For link, see: https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/asc:1433 Cultural strands are woven into the DNA of her strange, lush… poems. Aphorisms… from another dimension.” — New York TimesThe poem is one of the great narrative poems in English, with the old mariner recounting his story, with its hardships and tragedy, to a wedding guest. Variously interpreted as being about guilt over the Transatlantic slave trade, about Coleridge’s own loneliness, and about spiritual salvation, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner remains a challenging poem whose ultimate meaning is elusive. The call of the running tide / Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;” writes Masefield in Sea-Fever. Likewise, the Marshall Islands’ claim to a liveable future in the face of rapidly rising tides is – or ought to be – irresistible. Engraving on paper. Sheet: 20 in x 26 in; Plate: 16 ½ in x 23 in; Image: 11 ½ in x 18 ½ in. AC EDM 2003.90. Ocean poems that rhyme can encourage you to be more empathetic and connected. You are likely to encounter sensations of wonder when in the calm, meditative mood associated with connecting with water, which can boost your ability for connectedness and compassion. ‎

This resource is perfect to help teach students how to use figurative language with these metaphor poem templates, encouraging children to fill in the gaps. Acrostic poems are a brilliant starting point for beginner poets, providing the first letter of each line to spell out a keyword. Although these can start as simple word associations at first, why not encourage students to get more sophisticated with their writing and work on building metaphors and similies using oceanic language? Fig. 3. While the original manuscript of this poem is lost, the above fragment (AC 169, about 1880?) is extant. Ocean water encompasses three main quarters of the earth’s surface. The ocean is home to billions of species that collaborate in ways we can never completely comprehend. Much of the ocean is enigmatic. ‎Precisely this capacity of the sea to engulf the human body and brain appears in another poem from 1863, Fr. 631A (MS H 90). 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. 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]. How wonderful to watch a writer who was already among the best young poets get even better!” —Terrance Hayes If drowning is suggested through indirect means in Fr. 1446A, it is the explicit subject of Fr. 1542[B]. In this poem, which survives in entirety only in a transcript by Mabel Loomis Todd, the human is effaced in these waves altogether:

This colourful under the sea poem about ocean life is great for introducing your children to the kinds of creatures that can be found in the sea. It is a great introductory poem if you are planning on teaching a few lessons about ocean life and what happens under the sea. Figurative language is a key skill for any student to add to their writing toolbelt - it is by using figurative language that we give shape and colour to our writing, helping to draw parallels between difficult or abstract concepts and everyday parts of the human experience. The English Bible: King James Version, The New Testament and Apocrypha. A Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Gerald Hammond and Austin Busch. W. W. Norton, 2012.This well-known ballad poem tells of the beautiful, painful memory of a lost love from the speaker’s youth. The speaker and his love, Annabel Lee, lived “in a kingdom by the sea,” which is depicted with a sense of innocence, youth, and romance. However, after his love’s unexpected death, the speaker juxtaposes the kingdom with “sepulcher there by the sea” to signify a more solid, gothic, and final feeling.