The Seafarer
Stepping Into a New World in The Seafarer
The Seafarer translated by Burton Raffel is a tale used with many allegories, symbolizing the sea as something bigger and more important. In the poem the narrator feels trapped stating,”Alone in a world blown clear of love, hung with icicles, the hailstorms flew, the only sound was the roaring sea, the freezing waves”(Raffel, 16-19). In the phrases, the sailor understands that he’s all alone with no one to help him with living on the oceans, feeling he has no one to communicate with, knowing he can’t do anything about it because it’s his destiny to be a sailor, and understands that he just has to deal with it anyways. This reveals to the reader that the sea symbolizes a cage, preventing the man from
The Seafarer translated by Burton Raffel is a tale used with many allegories, symbolizing the sea as something bigger and more important. In the poem the narrator feels trapped stating,”Alone in a world blown clear of love, hung with icicles, the hailstorms flew, the only sound was the roaring sea, the freezing waves”(Raffel, 16-19). In the phrases, the sailor understands that he’s all alone with no one to help him with living on the oceans, feeling he has no one to communicate with, knowing he can’t do anything about it because it’s his destiny to be a sailor, and understands that he just has to deal with it anyways. This reveals to the reader that the sea symbolizes a cage, preventing the man from