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 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