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    The poem explores the metaphor of life being like the restless sea. The persona observes the rough sea battering the beach at Gabu, reflecting on how life is impermanent yet desires permanence. The sea's turmoil represents life's chaos and unpredictability. Though the sea has shaped the landscape for centuries, once its waves reach the shore they become still, just as in life even our most cherished things will ultimately be lost to time. The poem suggests that as the sea always returns to the shore, people too can find stability and meaning, even in the face of life's uncertainties and losses.

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    The poem explores the metaphor of life being like the restless sea. The persona observes the rough sea battering the beach at Gabu, reflecting on how life is impermanent yet desires permanence. The sea's turmoil represents life's chaos and unpredictability. Though the sea has shaped the landscape for centuries, once its waves reach the shore they become still, just as in life even our most cherished things will ultimately be lost to time. The poem suggests that as the sea always returns to the shore, people too can find stability and meaning, even in the face of life's uncertainties and losses.

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    The poem explores the metaphor of life being like the restless sea. The persona observes the rough sea battering the beach at Gabu, reflecting on how life is impermanent yet desires permanence. The sea's turmoil represents life's chaos and unpredictability. Though the sea has shaped the landscape for centuries, once its waves reach the shore they become still, just as in life even our most cherished things will ultimately be lost to time. The poem suggests that as the sea always returns to the shore, people too can find stability and meaning, even in the face of life's uncertainties and losses.

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    Poem Analysis

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    Dailyn Vergara
    The poem explores the metaphor of life being like the restless sea. The persona observes the rough sea battering the beach at Gabu, reflecting on how life is impermanent yet desires permanence. The sea's turmoil represents life's chaos and unpredictability. Though the sea has shaped the landscape for centuries, once its waves reach the shore they become still, just as in life even our most cherished things will ultimately be lost to time. The poem suggests that as the sea always returns to the shore, people too can find stability and meaning, even in the face of life's uncertainties and losses.

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    Genre

     Philosophical (Existentialist)
     Lyric Poem
    Persona

     Probably someone on a beach at Gabu, watching the rough sea, contemplating life
    Theme

     Life can be restless like the sea; temporal, but desires permanence.
     typhoon Imbudo, July 2003

    MEANING AND IMAGERY


    The battering restlessness of the sea
    Insists a tidal fury upon the beach
    At Gabu, and its pure consistency
    Havocs the wasteland hard within its reach.
     Gabu
     A place in Ilocos Norte near the sea
     Often, when typhoons occur, places like this are affected greatly
     Tsunami
     Ex: typhoon Imbudo, July 2003
     The sea is restless and can be destructive
     Sea = Life
     Battering restlessness = Impermanent

    Brutal the daylong bashing of its heart


    Against the seascape where, for miles around,
    Farther than sight itself, the rock-stones part
    And drop into the elemental wound.
     The turmoil of the sea is continuous and powerful
     Brutal bashing = life’s chaos
     Elemental wound = Depths of the sea
     Meaning and Imagery

    The waste of centuries is grey and dead


    And neutral where the sea has beached its brine,
    Where the split salt of its heart lies spread
    Among the dark habiliments of Time.
     The sea has been there for centuries
     Waste of centuries = Past
     Once the sea touches shore, it becomes neutral
     Spilt salt = Bad luck
     Saltiness of the sea describes it’s darkness/deadness
     Time bears the “spilt salt” of life
     Meaning and Imagery
    The vital splendor misses. For here
    At Gabu where the ageless tide recurs
    All things forfeited are most loved and dear.
     The brilliance necessary for life is not there because in life even the most important things
    are lost
     Meaning and Imagery

    It is the sea pursues a habit of shores.


     Waves show that the sea is constantly moving, but always towards the shore
     Life is bounded by time, always moving, but what we all desire is a stable and eternal
    ending
     Spiritual context: Shore = afterlife

    Figures of Speech

     Metaphor
     Sea = life
     Personification
     The vital splendor misses
     the sea pursues
     Synechdoche
     Brutal the daylong bashing of its heart
     Paradox
     All things forfeited are most loved and dear
     Reaction
     Always remember that our lives are fleeting
     The only constant thing in life is change
     Life can be rough, like the sea
     But we can believe that if the sea can find stability once it meets the shore, we can find it
    too
    Gabu is a place in Ilocos Norte. It is near Pagudpod. Often, when
    typhoon occurs, large tidal waves go rampant, even affecting Pagudpod
    itself. These tidal waves devastate the life forms (animals and plants)
    and even the structures in that place.

    The 2nd line reflects the sadness of people in times of despair. The color
    represented in the 3rd line is actually a description of sadness due to
    death and suffering as life can cease due to these waves.
    The 4th line describes that the calamity is strong and it may happen again and again.

    Lastly, the last line tells that the sea would really find its way to tell us about the status
    of people living in that place.

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