"Listen! you hear the grating roar.... again begin, with tremulous cadence slow, and bring the eternal note of sadness in."
After reading this poem, I couldn't help but think that the central theme is to show how sad life can be, but through it all, we must cling to the things we love most. The tone of the poem is very melancholy about sadness taking over life. For example, the first three stanzas are embellished with dreary diction, with words such as "sadness" "distant" and and even "naked." Later it becomes more uplifting, but the tone is demonstrated through the attitude of the words infused throughout. I'm starting to think that the mood is actually bittersweet. Also, the imagery is all about describing actual pieces of nature. For example, he describes the "sea" "tide" "cliffs" "bay" "land" and "waves." I feel that the speaker describes physical aspects of nature in order to symbolize the emotions of a human being. Our emotions go in and out like the "tides", but we must control our mindsets to pull in the optimistic outlooks instead of the depressing ones.
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