The Waters
The Waters - meaning Summary
Questions and the Indifferent Sea
The poem likens poets, prophets and wits to anglers miscasting at a pond of perception. Their misguided queries and assumptions leave them clinging to fragile ideas while overwhelming, impersonal forces crash in and blur who suffers and who causes suffering. The closing image suggests the world’s depths already hold an answer, but human questions have not been rightly posed to release it, emphasizing a failure of attunement rather than of knowing.
Read Complete AnalysesPoet,oracle and wit Like unsuccessful anglers by Th ponds of apperception sit, Baiting with the wrong request The vectors of their interest; At nightfall tell the angler's lie. With time in tempest everywhere, To rafts of frail assumption cling The saintly and the insincere; Enraged phenonmena bear down In overwhelming waves to drown Both sufferer and suffering. The waters long to hear our question put Which would release their longed-for answer, but.
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