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This colourful under the sea poem about ocean life is great for introducing your children to the kinds of creatures that can be found in the sea. It is a great introductory poem if you are planning on teaching a few lessons about ocean life and what happens under the sea. Figurative language is a key skill for any student to add to their writing toolbelt - it is by using figurative language that we give shape and colour to our writing, helping to draw parallels between difficult or abstract concepts and everyday parts of the human experience.

Do you yearn for the sea? If you literally cannot wait for your next beach vacation or sailing excursion across the ocean, read these poems about the beautiful ocean. Fig 3. While the original manuscript of this poem is lost, the above fragment (AC 169, about 1880?) is extant. Courtesy of the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections. For link, see: https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/asc:1433 These mesmerizing verses invite you to contemplate the complexities, emotions, and profound experiences that shape our existence, leaving you with a renewed sense of introspection. “The Ocean of Song” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox In each case, the form finds the poem’s content—and vice versa—with such ease and grace that one almost wonders how poems concerning the end of summer (“End-of-Summer Haibun”) or separation from a child (“Travel Mommy Ghazal”) ever found other shapes to begin with.Did you know? The sea covers more than 70 percent of the surface of our planet. That’s a lot of space for sea creatures to roam. What’s more, over 80 percent of the ocean remains unexplored – meaning no one has ever been there or knows what could be living down there. The sea’s withdrawal is not a matter of human desire, but of its own motion: the tides decide, not the speaker. The line from this expression of the sea’s independence of human desire and of the limits of the human when confronted by the sea would ultimately find its expression in the “undulating Rooms” of Fr. 1446A, the “abhorred abode,” of Fr. 1542[B], and the “syllableless sea” of Fr. 1689[A]. There’s no disputing that contemplating and fantasizing about the ocean offers us joy and tranquilly, and genuinely calms our spirit. In moments of stress, we look to the ocean for wise words delivered in the form of poetry. Here are some classic ocean poems for you. 1. Ocean – Mysterious Mistress This act of “glancing down” resonates in powerful consequences. The final lines of “Invitation” offer a question—“Who knows what will happen next?”—that also presents a significant opportunity. What happens next, it turns out, is not only the possibility of a different perception of the sea but also the potential for sensing the world itself entirely and radically anew:

Engraving on paper. Sheet: 20 in x 26 in; Plate: 16 ½ in x 23 in; Image: 11 ½ in x 18 ½ in. AC EDM 2003.90. Is this the greatest English poem about a sea-voyage? Coleridge’s friend and collaborator was sceptical about its merits, and toyed with removing it from subsequent editions of their landmark collection Lyrical Ballads (1798). Reading is tidal, and each tide brings with it new associations. It is difficult now to read John Masefield’s Sea-Fever without thinking of bleaching coral, or Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner without picturing Chris Jordan’s photographs of dead albatross, their stomachs full of brightly coloured plastic. “‘ Hope’ is the thing with feathers,” but avian flu is decimating seabird populations. More than that, the ocean has played an important part in many civilizations’ histories, making it a location that is both incredibly personal and massively universal. Poems about the ocean, unsurprisingly, come in a variety of forms. ‎

Reading Nezhukumatathil’s poems is a practice in keenly observing life’s details. The poet writes with a romantic sensibility about a world saturated with a deep sense of loss. Recommended for all poetry readers, especially those interested in ecopoetry.” — Library Journal How wonderful to watch a writer who was already among the best young poets get even better!” —Terrance Hayes

If your class enjoyed this metaphor poem exercise, why not try one of our other recommended resources to round out your lesson plan? European Eels, as mentioned in Steve Ely’s poem about their transatlantic migration to their spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea. Photograph: Nature Picture Library/AlamyThis well-known ballad poem tells of the beautiful, painful memory of a lost love from the speaker’s youth. The speaker and his love, Annabel Lee, lived “in a kingdom by the sea,” which is depicted with a sense of innocence, youth, and romance. However, after his love’s unexpected death, the speaker juxtaposes the kingdom with “sepulcher there by the sea” to signify a more solid, gothic, and final feeling.

Engraving on cloth. Frame: 28 in x 37 in; 71.1 cm x 94 cm; Image: 13 1/2 in x 22 1/2 in; 34.3 cm x 57.1 cm. AC EDM 2003.179. The ocean’s grandeur and beauty are breathtaking. From scientists and chemists to explorers and mariners, the ocean and its complete ecology captivate, enthrall, and delight multitudes of people all over the world. The first of the five sections of ‘The Dry Salvages’ is especially worth reading for its comparative analysis of the river and the sea. The ‘strong brown’ river is the Mississippi, which is ‘untamed and intractable’, and has served as a frontier and as a conduit for commerce. But unlike the river, which is within us, the sea is all about us. The river is a ‘god’, but the sea has ‘many gods’ and ‘many voices’: a polytheistic force of nature. The oceans are the heart of our globe and all of its inhabitants. They encompass roughly three-quarters of the planet and contain 97 percent of the world’s water. If you want your kids to learn more facts about oceans, share these ocean poems for kids with them. 1. Ocean Mightier than the LandThe simple vocabulary and rhymes paired with the colourful images of sea life make it an easy poem for children to follow. It will also hopefully help them to use their imaginations to visualise some of the creatures that can be found under the sea! Allow these famous poems about the ocean to educate you of the majesty of our oceans and how they may mirror the phases of our life. These famous ocean poems warn us that the ocean is huge and hides many mysteries. 1. Sail Away