Analysis Of Bodysurfing

The poem titled Bodysurfing had many sensory details throughout the poem. The narrator talks about how he felt the seaweed slide against his legs, how the cool ocean water soothed his sunbaked skin, his feelings as he felt as if he was a seagull flying on a blessed current of air. Whenever the narrator would use sensory details, it would emphasize the details because then the reader was able to relate to it since he described how he had exactly felt it.
When the narrator talked about how he could feel the seaweed touch his leg where it was murky underneath, I was able to understand what he was saying since he described about it being murky down there, and also that he felt the seaweed. Another, sensory detail that he used in this poem was
when he talked about how the cool ocean water soothed his sunbaked skin. For people who have been on the beach before, and been in the sun for too long they might have actually gotten sunburn, and now people are able to relate to it and imagine how he might have felt during that situation. Lastly, he says he felt as if he was seagull that was flying through a blessed current of air. Now he is talking about when he was on the wave and was riding it he felt as if he was a seagull. People are able to relate to this much better since people have most likely seen seagull, and now since he said that he feels as though if he was seagull flying through the air people are most like going to be able to relate. In conclusion, I feel that the sensory details help people comprehend what the narrator is saying much more efficiently.