, M.Ljlojulo

In the poem, “For Julia, in Deep Water”, John M. Morris describes a child, Julia in her swimming lessons and the struggles she faces as the lesson proceeds and does so by utilizing metaphors and imagery. Also, the poem fosters the parents’ point of view, depriving themselves from assisting their own daughter and the reader is able to comprehend the frightening and poignant of both the child and parents go through, as Morris depicts in his stanzas. In the first stanza, Morris explicates an instructor being hired to teach a child, referring to Julia, hiring an instructor one that does not love her. As Morris stated, “The instructor we hire…Because she does not love you”, such exploit is done by the parents in the poem because it is easier for a dethatched adult to cope with the screams’ of a child and crying in the water compared to how it may feel to a parent itself. Frightening, the line, “You will dream this water always,” is certainly true. For instance, the most daunting and startling experience one goes through, is stuck with one forever, such as the little girl conveyed in the poem, Julia. Julia vigor’s through her challenging swimming class without the aid of her parents. As Julia grief’s, her parents corresponding do the same. Miller states, “You will scream for your mother--… Only your mother is drowning too”, connotes the mother is upright and observing her daughter skirmish and she too is skirmishing just watching, not being able to help nor comfort her own “baby”, her daughter. Just as skirmish and helpless Julia and her mother may feel, Julia’s dad feels it; the same discomfort, vulnerability and helplessness his daughter and wife may feel. “I am besides her in this imagination”, also illustrates the fruitlessness he feels as the father. As Julia swims toward her frantic and exasperated parents as her father just stances as she agonizes, “wasting her valuable breath”. The father reflects that once Julia acquires her abilities she is striving for, she will be capable of persisting in the water. As you can see, in the poem, “For Julia, in Deep Water”, by John M. Morris portrays the child, Julia, will have variety of struggles in her life throughout whatever path she may pursue. Morris also conveys how Julia will develop the abilities and skills over time in order to cope with the adult world. It is also about parents knowing when they need to let go or pass the responsibility on to the other adults to teach their children.