The narrator feels anguish, for not being able to save his family, as seen in the last stanza, “through great volumes of water/through centuries of stone/ crying my name among blind fish/ wanting so much to come home.”. The word ‘crying’ has a connotation to it that indicates failure and anguish. Waters wraps up the poem by encompassing symbols, such as the water, and ambiguous language, blurring the line between the two characters failed journeys. In his poem, “The Mystery of the Caves”, Michael Waters communicates to the reader that a failed mission, especially one that a person so desperately wants to accomplish, can cause immense grief within an
The narrator feels anguish, for not being able to save his family, as seen in the last stanza, “through great volumes of water/through centuries of stone/ crying my name among blind fish/ wanting so much to come home.”. The word ‘crying’ has a connotation to it that indicates failure and anguish. Waters wraps up the poem by encompassing symbols, such as the water, and ambiguous language, blurring the line between the two characters failed journeys. In his poem, “The Mystery of the Caves”, Michael Waters communicates to the reader that a failed mission, especially one that a person so desperately wants to accomplish, can cause immense grief within an