Shoaled

This poem is about many types of loss but particularly loss of direction and mind. It is an allegory for a person’s descent into losing everything by becoming mad. I chose to name this poem ‘Shoaled’ as it can be interpreted as: the person has lost his shoal-group of people, the person is not shoaling towards the stars( not going where everyone else is) however mostly I chose it for the meaning shoal as in hidden danger. It also begins with the Sh sound which is a main sound throughout this poem. I used words such as swell, squall, shoal, shoaled, squeal, screeched, scream, admonishingly, sharp, shale, crashed, sun, set, star, shallowness to convey the sounds of the splashing,waves and roaring wind so loud that it is quiet. The assonance
The poem starts he can see everywhere he is not lost then he choses a path down as the sun sets symbolising the person loss, see. then he becomes mad and loses the person mind but then realises no one cares. The colours gradually get darker throughout the poem from blue to jet black to enhance the severity and despair of loss throughout the poem. Enjambment was used to highlight the importance of the person decisions at that moment. “as the sun gradually set……a sun that now was none” to signify that the decision to momentarily descend or momentarily give up caused the person to fall even further. Therefore using the use of enjambment to begin with the second stanza has the strongest emotions as the person is almost angry with fear. then at the bottom it is exrtrememly noisy so he can not hear it is so cold he can not feel it it is so dark he can not The person than loses all its senses, the person cannot see as it is too dark, cannot feel as it is too cold cannot not hear because the wind and the waves are so loud it seems
The person than looks back up at the cliff where he came frombut sees it would take a million times to get back to where he was so the person gives up. And if he did get back there is so many ways in which the person could be successful however each one would mean losing out on an other opportunity or overcoming a great hurdle always leaving regret. I used the words encompass and star to show the person’s loss of direction as stars are a traditional form of navigation and therefore the fact that the person is ignoring the stars is crazy as the person would obviously be going in the wrong direction therefore he had lost the ability to look for a way out and opportunities. The stars symbolise the different opportunities and different ways you could be successful, different paths to choose. the person then gives up therefore obstinately continues in the person ways. showing how things can always get worst through the use of colours black can get blacker. the person has lost everything now. The person has lost: status, opportunity, senses, mind, direction, light, height, lost everything, voice. Iambic pentameter was used for some of line lines however on completing the poem it does not read well that