I desperatly need help! im gonna fail!?

Question

I need major help! I'm doing an analysis on a poem called Night by Louise Bogan and I just do not get this poem at all. Can you please do a line by line analysis for me? I just need what each line means not all the literary devices used. I desperately need this help. Here is how it goes.

heres some extra info its like the background info. You should read this before you analyze poem.
The power of the sea pulses throughout the lives of the villagers in the novel, for the sea gives both life and death. At the novel's conclusion, Remedios ( A character in the book A Place Where the Sea Remembers by Sandra Benitez) waits patiently at the seashore, contemplating the mysteries of life as the sun sets slowly. In the following poem, the speaker reflects, upon the mysterious and powerful rythms of the sea

Thanks Again!

Night
by Louise Bogan

The Cold remote islands
And the blue estuaries
Where what breathes, breathes
The restless wind of the inlets
And what drinks, drinks
The incoming tide;

i just need to know what it means. this is really hard for me. I tried this for about 2 hours but i just couldn't do it. I'm sorry if i disappoint you but ireally needhelp!

Answer 1

line by line analysis of what? You are desperate but you don't even give enough info to help you. Are you supposed to compare it to something? Decide what it means? Draw parallels to something else you read?

It's not like you have to decipher The Wasteland by TS Eliott for crying out loud...I think you can figure it out if you just apply yourself and stop expecting someone else to do it for you.

Answer 2

I'd also advise what sunshine says above. do not expect someone to do do it for you. Forget about this failing idea. Do not wail around because of this poem. I guess the teacher has handled similar poems in class! Just sit down, sober up and reflect on what the poem might be about. If someone analyzes it for you, your teacher will not be happy. You are required to do that yourself, that is how you will learn.

OK, you are really desperate. This is the complete poem:

Night

by Louise Bogan (1897-1970)



The cold remote islands

And the blue estuaries

Where what breathes, breathes

The restless wind of the inlets,

And what drinks, drinks

The incoming tide;



Where shell and weed

Wait upon the salt wash of the sea,

And the clear nights of stars

Swing their lights westward

To set behind the land;



Where the pulse clinging to the rocks

Renews itself forever;

Where, again on cloudless nights,

The water reflects

The firmament's partial setting;



--O remember

In your narrowing dark hours

That more things move

Than blood in the heart.
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Her favorite themes are horror and change.
The poem is about the mysteries of change. Read more from the link below:

Good luck.

Answer 3

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