Transcript text: The Seafarer: Discussion
"The Seafarer" uses these words and phrases as names for what? pathway of tides; high streams; sea-way; the home of the whale; whale-path
the sea
the sky
the Seafarer's boat
THE SEAFARER
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Part 1
To make my journey's story, a song of my voyaging,
How all through hardship's hours I have suffered times
Of care in my heart, have known my keel cleave
Wall-like cliffs, while care's anxiety ate
Through my sea-wearied mind. The flood has tossed me
Between the clinching cold of night watches
And the fear of death in the awful waves.
My feet were fettered with frost, were frosted with cold chains,
While cares seethed hot about my heart,
And hunger, sea-weary, sapped strength from within.
The man may not know who stays on land,
How I, care-wretched, have dwelt a winter long
Out on the ice-cold sea, in exile's wake,
Robbed of my kinsmen, hung about with icicles,
While hail flew in showers. There heard I nothing