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Watching For Dolphins - Coggle Diagram
Watching For Dolphins
Literary devices
Sibilance: Relaxing("sound of waves"),
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Personification: dolphins come 'smiling', Abused Aegean
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Themes
Nature, Spirituality, Purpose
The passengers’ desire to encounter dolphins is really a desire to come into contact with something more profound than what they have come to expect from their ordinary existence "in the city"
the poem implies that such spirituality—such feelings of awe, wonder, and purpose—is deeply connected to witnessing the majesty and beauty of the natural world.
"certain passengers soon rose From seats in the packed saloon" The image implies the stifled or “deadened” quality of the passengers’ everyday routines in the city are metaphorically brought back to life by the wonder of nature.
"Stared like a saint," They look to the dolphins as a saint would look to divinity, expecting something extraordinary, something that might offer their lives meaning.
The word “epiphany” describes a sudden revelation or an instance of insight. It is this epiphany—or sudden, tangible appearance of something that will infuse their lives with meaning
Isolation, Longing, Connection
Different people: children, lovers, a 'fat man', all have a common purpose to fill their desires
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Poem Division
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Stanza 1, 2, 3, 4: Description of literal departure