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Reading Nezhukumatathil’s poems is a practice in keenly observing life’s details. The poet writes with a romantic sensibility about a world saturated with a deep sense of loss. Recommended for all poetry readers, especially those interested in ecopoetry.” — Library Journal Do you yearn for the sea? If you literally cannot wait for your next beach vacation or sailing excursion across the ocean, read these poems about the beautiful ocean. 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! One of the most famous sea poems in English literature, ‘Sea-Fever’ was published in 1902 in Masefield’s collection Salt-Water Ballads, when the poet was in his mid-twenties. Although its opening line is most familiar as ‘I must go down to the sea again’, it began life in its 1902 incarnation as the slightly odder ‘I must down to the seas again’.

Fig. 3. While the original manuscript of this poem is lost, the above fragment (AC 169, about 1880?) is extant. In the 1960s and 1970s, students and faculty at the newly established University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific in Fiji begin to study, write, and publish poetry and stories in broadsides, chapbooks, zines, anthologies, and full-length collections. Other centers of Pacific poetry soon emerged across the Pacific, including Aoteaora (New Zealand), Samoa, Tonga, Hawaiʻi, Tahiti, and Guam. Today, several Pacific writers have become internationally renowned, and their work has been translated into multiple languages and media, including film. Pacific literature courses are now taught in high schools and colleges throughout Oceania, and there are publishers and literary journals dedicated wholly to Pacific writing. Several dissertations, theses, essays, and monographs have focused on the history, theory, and aesthetics of Pacific literature. Book festivals, reading series, open mics, spoken word slams, writing workshops, humanities councils, author retreats, and literary conferences have created a dynamic and vibrant Pacific literary scene. 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. ‎ Throughout Oceanic, Nezhukumatathil upends conventional notions of both what power looks like and what safety means. For her, the natural forces human beings have long regarded as dangerous—tigers, snakes, lava—can be sources not just of power but also of safety.” — Georgia ReviewContemporary Pacific Islander poetry most commonly includes oral and written poetry composed by authors who are genealogically linked to the indigenous people of the areas of the Pacific known as Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. While many of these poets live within the “Pacific Basin,” there are also many residing in the United States. Because Pacific Islanders are one of the fastest growing populations in America, it is essential that we read Pacific literature, which has for too long been invisible within discussions of American and Global poetry. Let us now look at some ocean love poems. When you sit by the ocean and stare out at the sea, you relax your thoughts and senses from sensory overload, enter a state of mindfulness, and are able to think more clearly about your loved ones. These poems about the ocean and love reiterate the same thing. 1. Salt 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 There is also Betjamen’s lovely sea-side poem full of nostagia for a forgotten, or never-experienced childhood: European Eels, as mentioned in Steve Ely’s poem about their transatlantic migration to their spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea. Photograph: Nature Picture Library/Alamy

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 Yet this story of a mariner and his crew, who suffer terrible misfortunes after they ill-advisedly kill an albatross, has become a classic long narrative poem and one of the defining poems of the English Romantic movement. In Watchet in Somerset, there is a statue of the Ancient Mariner, marking the place where Coleridge conceived of the idea for the poem. Written shortly after Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, “Dover Beach” is a breathtaking poem about a clash between science and religion. Staring down at the shoreline from a cliff, Arnold draws a parallel between the sand and sea and science and religion. Without drawing a definitive line in the sand, Arnold concedes that scientific discovery is beautiful, but it cannot make life meaningful without love.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. 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.



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