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Poet: Dorothy Parker
Poem: 22.
The Sea
Volume: Death and Taxes
Year: Published/Written in 1931
Poem of the Day:
Feb 21 2008
Comment 3 of 3, added on January 25th, 2005 at 2:45 PM.
This girl must be crazy, her husband was a bi sexual and she couldn't tell! She needed some help!
Student 11 from United States
Comment 2 of 3, added on January 2nd, 2005 at 5:33 PM.
I think that this poem is truly magnificent.. i love dorthy parker..she is one of my favorite poets of at times!
Ben from Canada
Comment 1 of 3, added on January 2nd, 2005 at 2:12 AM.
"The Sea" like many other poems of Parker has the theme of death as an inevitable reality that reveals its facets in man's life frequently.In "The Sea" Parker admits unpredictability of death plus its certainty.The metaphor "shallow pit" illustrates the grave as a place for the long wait for the doomsday.
the poem is symbolically noticeable. Sea, as the symbol of unconsciousness and the mystery of life, represents the splendour or at least the certainty of death. The heaviness of the sea may imply the burden of the deeds we have done in the world. Anyway, Parker does not complains of death, but she has accepted it as a phenomenon. Parker's determinism magnifies her sight to the world, death and results in her sentimental purification. Probably, Parker advises us to find a source of symbolic water or sea for purification before death, because the posthumous life is appraised according to our earthly existence.
Morteza Lak from Iran
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This girl must be crazy, her husband was a bi sexual and she couldn't tell! She needed some help!
Student 11 from United States