Main Idea in Poem?

Question

can someone please explain the main idea in this poem "The Dismantled Ship" by Walt Whitman? my paper needs to be a page. I get it is a decaying ship but what is that supposed to represent. I have a lot of trouble with finding meaning in Poems lol. Thankyou guys!!

"In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,
On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchor'd near the shore,
An old, dismasted, gray and batter'd ship, disabled, done,
After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd up at last and
hawser'd tight,
Lies rusting, mouldering."

Answer 1

It's about a boy and his dog, and the love between them that could never be broken

Answer 2

It seems to me that the heart of the poem is the fourth line. (Look up "hawser" is you don't know what the word means.) That's the line that talks about what the ship once was, not just what it is now.

Is an old, decrepit ship the only thing that was once young and vigorous and able to explore the whole world, but is now feeble, ancient, and limited in scope?

Can you look at a weak, diminished person or thing, something near the end of its life, and imagine it in the full flower of its youth and power?

Can you look at something new and vital and full of possibilities and imagine it years later, used up, drained of energy, battered by experience, near the end of its life?

Answer 3

i think of the factor of the poem is that when an entire life of working no longer undemanding (after unfastened voyages to all the seas of earth) the deliver is placed into an lonesome, nameless place, that no person knows approximately, broken, battered and left to die....style of like people, after working all there existence for his or her kin, giving each and every thing they must those they love, they're placed right into a nameless homestead and forgotten, left to die previous and on my own.