Analysis This POEM : HELP!!!?

Question

I need help analysis this poem : "The Shark" by E.J. Shark

Please go to THIS SITE to READ THE POEM:

http://pages.interlog.com/~gilgames/ppratt1.htm

In this assignment...i need to analysis this poem and FIND THE THEME OF THIS POEM AND PROOF!!!

Also...if you can describe rhythm,tone,setting/presence.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

E. J. Pratt

E.J. Pratt was a well-known and still celebrated Canadian poet. Some of his work was really good, and some of it was passable, but a few pieces really stick out in my mind. I've listed them. He was half from the modern school, and half from the 19th-century tradition of controlled metre.

"Fred Cogswell has called Pratt "the last-born literary child of frontier (north) America", and there is a good deal of truth in that jocular observation.

In the still primitive conditions of the Far West and the Canadian eastern seaboard, the wilderness of plain, desert, sea, and rock gave a meaningful setting to the clash of forces taking place within society too. Pratt's work is filled with images of primitive nature and evolutionary history."



The shark

He seemed to know the harbour,
So leisurely he swam;
His fin,
Like a piece of sheet-iron,
Three-cornered,
And with knife-edge,
Stirred not a bubble
As it moved
With its base-line on the water.

His body was tubular
And tapered
And smoke-blue,
And as he passed the wharf
He turned,
And snapped at a flat-fish
That was dead and floating.
And I saw the flash of a white throat,
And a double row of white teeth,
And eyes of metallic grey,
Hard and narrow and slit.

Then out of the harbour,
With that three-cornered fin
Shearing without a bubble the water
Lithely,
Leisurely,
He swam--
That strange fish,
Tubular, tapered, smoke-blue,
Part vulture, part wolf,
Part neither-- for his blood was cold.

The persona looks at the shark in wonderment as it swims towards the shoreline. He is in amazement about this strange fish,
Tubular, tapered, smoke-blue,
Part vulture, part wolf,
Part neither-- for his blood was cold.
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The theme is one of awe and wonderment. The persona is awestruck by this strange fish which looks like a vulture and like a wolf but again looks like none of the two.
The tone is of wonderment, There's rhythm in some lines that capture the movement of the shark. The setting is the sea.
Be careful though, the whole poem can be read as an extended metaphor commenting about wonderment of creation and of nature.
Look at the links below and read more about the Canadian poet.
Good luck

Answer 2

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Answer 3

HARD!
well, i can tell you have one of those teachers....
the theme might be survival of the fittest or something like that...
tone is maybe serene and nature-like; calm
presence of danger?
I really don't know....i'm sorry...
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