Death By Water: Ideals Of Mortality

The title of my chosen section is Death by Water it’s significant because, the section reflects the ideals of mortality. Death by Water is the fourth section of five I didn’t fully understand why it is important that it was the fourth one but I believe that it is important because it was referred to in the Tara reading. The section is broken up in to three sections all of which is narrated in the third person reminding a sailor to remember the ideals of Phlebas a Phoenician. The Phoenicians were a group of Greek explores that explored most of the world as we know today. The reminder was about how Phlebas forgot the ideas of mortality for wealth and knowledge and there for lost his life to the sea. As his bony was taken by the see the imagery
of his body being picked apart is symbolizing how time takes its toll. If you were to only read this section, it would easily stand as its own poem which is actually an interesting idea.