They Rock Poem Summary

Afterwards, the notion of “they rock” can be seen as the faster and unshaken movement of the whales because the faster they rock the more they can get the chance to reach the “depth of the seven seas easily which is a metaphoric usage.To illustrate the word “sensual” is important with its sudden intervention as the meaning might get changed because even though the whales are portrayed with the act of rocking, their sexual side is demonstrated.In that sense,the narrator portrayed the whales with a kind of personification to reveal that they feel the taste of each others sexuality “through the salt” and get to their action “in the tropics” like the mankind.Then, the whales could possibly be the undying and godlike creatures whose sexual
desires are as same as a power of god since the god with its divine power created the “seven seas” and the whales rock around these seas through “the sensual ageless ages”.In comparison with the poem “Warming Her Pearls” by Carol and Duffy, since the maiden wears the skin of mistress in this poem with the line “Next to my own skin, her pearls”, the whales wears the skin of god-like figure as it mentioned above with a cluster of divine power and “seven seas” that they kind a create a servant and master relationship between their sexual desires and the god as a creator and their master.This detail is perfectly shown by the narrator as follows in the original poem as “ roll with massive, strong desire, like gods ” which is again a reminder of another poem “ Warming Her Pearls” that like the maiden injects liveliness into pearl with some indications like “ I dream about her”, the whales with their “strong desire” is being injected of “love” and “drunk delight”.Then, “the great bull” with his act of lying up against his bride can be observed through the themes of innocence and hopefulness for the future no matter how deep the bed of the sea.For example, in comparison with the poem “Medusa” by Carol and Duffy, since Medusa become something terrifying against the idea of bride which is illustrated as “A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy” in the poem, the situation of the great bull with the notion of “deep” before the word “bed”
is a good detail to say that the great bull is entering a new space in “the zest of life” with his bride,which is positive,and, it is alike with the Medusa’s rejection of bride which is negative as a contrast detail to the original poem.Also, the usage of “inward roaring” is perfectly clustered with “inner red ocean of whale-blood” with the theme of sexuality again because it is like the things that are decay slowly, the perspective of the whales with the blood symbol is
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changed as well.That is to say, “the maelstrom-tip” that the narrator use can be seen as the symbol of wave because of its meaning a “whirlpool”,then, the long tip with its strong and intense specifications are the ones that serve the function of main resource for the “she- whale’s fathomless body” with its penetration and “comes to rest” with its supremacy.Furthermore, the “strong phallus” of the whale over the bridge seem to be a reminder of the word phallic in which it could be said that the whale might symbolize the continuity of the natural life because it is the idea of wonder that creates a link between the other whales and the whale with “strong phallus”.For instance, the relationship between mankind and divinity is a good detail that they try to create ideologies to reach it
by wondering and believe in an almighty power like the whale with its strong phallus to pull others like a magnet.Then, the use of “burning archangels” can be a tricky to see it as a negative meaning like the archangels with their burning anger under the sea, but it is perfectly completed by an irony which is “archangels of bliss” since the archangels is known to be the higher ranked angels.Also, the use of “Cherubim” which is known to be the angels that are related with their wisdom can be observed as the symbol of purity.For instance, “the great heaven of whales in the waters” might be a moral message because the “old hierarchies” creates a contrast image against the “great heaven” since the hierarchies are known to be stand for lower and higher ranks, the whales in the waters,oppositely, are neutral creatures of the nature.For example, this symbol can also be seen as a subtle transition which reveals a good detail by the narrator because they are the ones that “suspended in the waves of the sea” which could possibly mean that the purity of their knowledge is being beaten by some intervention and it might be death or even the disruption of material life that create waves on their natural life.So, it is possible to say that there’s a counter-argument in this detail because even though they are pure and knowledgeable, their wisdom is poisoned with materiality.In comparison with the poem “Thy
Finger Make Early Flowers” by e.e Cummings, like “early flowers of all things” in the first line of this poem, the early hierarchies with their supremacy as mentioned by “whose strangeness” in the second stanza are antique and doesn’t have a free will within their narrowed perspective of living through implacable ideas rather than natural life.