On the Sea
On the Sea - meaning Summary
Restorative Power of the Sea
Keats’s sonnet presents the sea as a timeless, restorative presence whose perpetual sounds fill coastal caverns and soothe the exhausted senses. The poem contrasts worldly noise and cloying pleasures with the sea’s vastness, urging readers to sit by an old cavern and let the ocean’s rhythms cleanse and renew perception. Classical allusions and deep nature imagery underline a contemplative response to the sublime and the healing power of solitude.
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