Young Sea
Young Sea - form Summary
Free Verse's Restless Energy
Written in free verse, the poem uses an open, unrhymed line to mirror the sea’s continual motion and sudden surges. The voice treats the sea as a young, stormy figure that speaks, laughs, and issues a blunt invitation to the daring. Its unstructured cadence emphasizes immediacy and risk, letting images and short lines accumulate into a single declarative close where the sea claims authority as the source of storms and stars.
Read Complete AnalysesThe sea is never still. It pounds on the shore Restless as a young heart, Hunting. The sea speaks And only the stormy hearts Know what it says: It is the face of a rough mother speaking. The sea is young. One storm cleans all the hoar And loosens the age of it. I hear it laughing, reckless. They love the sea, Men who ride on it And know they will die Under the salt of it Let only the young come, Says the sea. Let them kiss my face And hear me. I am the last word And I tell Where storms and stars come from.
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