The Sea By Pablo Neruda

The film The Sea Inside shares the heart warming real life story of a man named Ramon Sampedro. At the young age of twenty-six he suffered an accident while diving into shallow waters of the ocean that left him a quadriplegic. Now at the age of fifty-four, Ramon must depend on his family to survive. His older brother Jose, Jose’s wife, Manuela and their son Javi do their best to take care of Ramon and make him feel loved. Although Ramon is extremely grateful to his family and friends for their help all these years, he has come to see his life as aggravating and unsatisfying. He wishes to die with the little dignity he has left in his life. However, Ramon’s family is dead set against the thought of assisted suicide and the

African Americans have been discriminated and were not treated fairly from the beginning of the American colonies up to the 1960s. Their history included about 250 years of slavery followed by another 100 years of discrimination. However, many people state that throughout the 1800s, the whaling industry helped African Americans thrive as a race. In addition, they were treated as equals and could gain glory and wealth from it. In most cases, this is not true because negroes for three main reasons. Almost all African people did not receive high positions on their crew ships. Also, they experienced segregation on ships and were treated not equally. Finally, they were taken for their cheap and hard labor in a dangerous, unrewarding industry. Using internet sources and the novel, In The Heart of The Sea, by Nathaniel Philbrick, African Americans in the whaling industry had low status within crews and faced harsh working conditions as well as discrimination and racism.

When you read a long poem, sometimes as a young ready, you lose interest. The longer the poem, the faster a reader gets over it. I believe Neruda does not want his readers to lose interest. He wants his readers to understand the meaning behind his art. The reason I say this, is because of his word choice in his poems. The

People don’t always obtain everything they want, they struggle to accomplish all their goals. In the story “The Eel” the river symbolizes the struggles. Eugenio Montale wrote the poem The Eel in 1916, and it is about the struggles during World War II. Montale was one of the utmost perceptive and varied Italian poets of the century,and he used symbolism of river. Symbolism of river created a sorrow atmosphere which was persistent throughout Eugenio Montale’s literature. The river symbolizes the division, struggles of life, and hope therefore creating a sorrow atmosphere.

The story The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis, in this book it shows that children don’t need their parents to survive. In the book, the main historical event was the Tsunami and it was set in 2004 and in a poor town in Indonesia. The major protagonists are Ruslan, Sarah, and Peter they are stuck in a place that is destroyed by a tsunami and they have to find out if their families are alive. Also, they have to join together and work with each other. Not only, soon they realize that one of them is sick and need to find him an infirmary to get medical attention.

In literature, many great authors have written poems and books about the ocean because is a fascinating part of nature, representing purity, danger and excitement. It is vast, sustaining many forms of life, but it also has the power to take life away: the ocean is symbolic of creation and destruction. In Kate Chopin’s novella, The Awakening, many important scenes are set the ocean. Edna Pontellier experiences and reflects the dual power of the ocean in the novella, through childlike activities such as, learning to swim and a rebirth, but also in more powerful experiences, like committing suicide in the final scene. Chopin uses imagery and diction to foreshadow the final scene as a suicide and a rebirth.

“Soldiering is 99% boredom and 1% of sheer terror”, a civil war soldier wrote this to his wife in a letter and since then the composition of war has not changed. So, what did the soldiers do in those periods of boredom? Well, especially for the men in the frontlines, who were far from any form of entertainment, writing letters, diaries and poems were some of the few available options. These were the forms of war literatures that soldiers used to express and share their feelings with their loved ones at home, as well as record the horrors of war in subjective portrayal of events. Military personnaels felt the most connected and close ot home, through readiging about it in letters. Today, many of these letters, poems and stories are shared

The final poetic manipulation Neruda uses to convey his feeling of utter reverence of the tuna fish is his use of diction. Neruda combines both Germanic and Latinate diction within his poem to make the ode sound both conversational and eloquent in order to perceive a sense of being relatable

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, written by the best selling author Jules Verne, is an enthralling undersea adventure that begins when a mysterious oblong, occasionally phosphorescent “thing”, larger and infinitely faster than a whale, begins attacking boats. The famous oceanographer Professor Pierre Aronnax is invited aboard the Abraham Lincoln to hunt down what he believes to be a giant narwhal, but once they find it, even the superior war boat is no match for this strange creature. Professor Aronnax and his trusty servant Council are thrown overboard and end up on the deck of an oblong, occasionally phosphorescent submarine with their acquaintance Ned Land, a Canadian Harpooner. They are then hostilely brought aboard and told by Captain Nemo that they are never allowed to leave the Nautilus, the boat our three travelers happened upon. After this depressing news, they are offered the opportunity to travel the world underwater and experience wonders only the captain himself has ever seen, which they promptly accept.

Neruda does this to help develop the theme of self deprecation once more, which helps him make his readers feel as if they can relate to his writing. “When I spoke to a stone, it simply rang like a bell, as if telling me away,” shows how the author tries to accomplish his goals, to get a simple or insufficient outcome (Neruda 347). This leads Neruda to further develop the theme of self deprecation in his poems. Finally, the last use of auditory imagery in Neruda’s literature is used to show self betrayal once again. Neruda continues to show self betrayal throughout his literature to represent the theme of self deprecation.

Santiago appreciates the ocean “He always thought of the sea as la mar…but they always said as though she were a woman” (29). The old man was born to

A world renown author, Ernest Hemingway won fame for his short story, The Old Man and the Sea. The brilliant piece of literature captures the audience’s attention with its intriguing imagery and bold themes. The novella centers around an elderly fisherman named Santiago, and his excruciating three-day battle with an enormous marlin. In many literary circles, writers debate Hemingway’s portrayal of Santiago as either a static or dynamic character. Conclusively, Santiago acts as a static character in his failure to change during his various hardships.

In Octavio Paz’s short story My Life with the Wave, he presents the tale of a man’s passionate turned abusive encounter with an ocean wave. An experience that the narrator claims changed his life quickly transforms into what he describes as a relationship of fear and hate. While the relationship between the narrator and the wave began happy, their actions and lack of an emotional connection foreshadow its eventual failure. By highlighting the characteristics of the relationship between the narrator and the wave, Paz suggests the overall meaning of his work is to illustrate the essence of an unhealthy relationship.

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite". (Jules 199) This part of a Quote written by Jules Verne himself can be found in one of Verne's most famous book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. it Gives a clue to his fascination with world travel adventures and the knowledge he was inspired by. Jules Verne is a globally known bestseller and is often referred as by many "the father of science fiction" (Derbyshire 1).

“Everything about him was old, except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.” (10) This quote describes the protagonist from Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago. Santiago is an old man who can do anything he sets his mind to. Throughout the novel, Santiago is faced with many challenges, that become limitations to him. Consequently, Santiago creates a relationship with nature, including the ocean and the creatures of the sea. Santiago is a very kind and caring man who respects nature in a tremendous manner. In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago has a relationship with the sea and its creatures, characterizes them, and during his time at sea, has limitations.