The Sea Eats the Land at Home

The Sea Eats the Land at Home

1. Line 1: "At home the sea is in the town" imagery, simple statement showing the town flodded

2. Line 2: "Running in and out" personification, that it destroyed everything

3. Line 2: "of the cooking places" trible, undeveloped, 3 world

4. Line 3: "collecting the firewood from the hearts" implication that the sea is doing it on purpose, its active

5. Line 4: "and sending it back at night" ironic because it gives back the wood while it doesn't light up anymore. Its wanting to create disaster

6. Line 5: "The sea eats the land at home" cadece, repeating the sentence around the poem

7. Line 6: "it came one day at the dead of night" personified the idea that it planned its attack and when to strike, it also changes the tone creating a negative thretening one

8. Line 7: "Destroying the cements walls" active, malificent doing bad monster like things. Also showing the force the water has

9. Line 8&9: "And carried away the fowls, The cooking-pots and the ladles" left withought means to survive. Already previously struggling

10. Line 12, 13&14: "And the mourning shouts of the women, Calling on all the gods they worship, To protect them from the angry sea" grief & loss of important thing to the sea, creating empacy

11. Line 13: "Calling on all the gods they worship" implies a religion that worships various gods

12. Line 15: "Aku" builds empathy because they've given us a name creating a more personal creation

13. Line 16, 17&18: "With her two children shivering from the cold, Her hands on her breast, Weeping mournfully" emphasis the pain she's in

14. Line 19:&20:: "Her ancestors have neglected her, Her gods have deserted her" she believes the gods have ignored her, it breaks her believes

15. Line 22: "The storm was raging" strong powerful word

16. Line 23: "Goats and fowls were struggling in the water" oral imagery

17. Line 26: "And above the sobs and the deep and low moans" polisyndeton, implies an unending to all these mentions. They will keep going on and on

18. Line 27: "Was the eternal hum of the living sea" always there, maybe waiting to strike again

19. Line 28: "It has taken away their belongings" has taken on purpose their things

20. Line 29&30: "Adena has lost the trinkets which were her dowry and her joy" taken away all her memories and belongings

21. Line 31&32: "In the sea that eats the land at home, eats the whole land at home" total masacre, total destruction