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- “I am not seaworthy” by Toni Morrisson is a free one-verse stanza and Spenserian poem. Although it doesn’t have a rhyme scheme, the poem has an alliteration mark in line 2, with the repetition of the “H” sound. The speaker is the only character of the poem and rides the sea against his/her will. The writer conveys the message of the poem through the character’s perspective.
- MIDDLE PASSAGE
- The poem describes a person who went through a sea Journeyundertaken by Slave ships, called “the Middle passage.” It is possible to tellthat the speaker is probably a dead person, as we can see in lines 2,8 and 9, where he/she suggests that thefish mistakes her/his hair from home and reinforces his/her desire to go to theland and trick little boy death out of his/her hand, implying the fact thathe/she had drowned and if it wasn't for this fact, he/she would probably bealive. The poem's situation is relatedto the speaker’s perspective, which describes his/her feelings towards the factthat he/she is Riding the sea Against her/his will.The conflict of the poem canbe related to the fact that the speaker cannot be “Earth bound”, as we can seein line 5, suggesting the desire to not be on the sea. The theme is about aperson’s wish to be on the land before her/his death.
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