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Break, Break, Break POEM TEXT THEMES Get hundreds more LitCharts at www.litcharts.com Break, Break, Break POEM TEXT THEMES 1 Break, break, break, LOSS AND IMPERMANENCE 2 On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! For the speaker of “Break, Break, Break,” the fleeting 3 And I would that my tongue could utter nature of life is deeply troubling. The poem implies 4 The thoughts that arise in me. that the speaker is mourning someone’s death and being forced to face the fact that this person will never return. Although the 5 O, well for the fisherman's boy, poem doesn’t clarify the circumstances of the speaker’s loss, it’s 6 That he shouts with his sister at play! clear that it has thoroughly unsettled the speaker, who can’t even stare out at the ocean without feeling tormented by the 7 O, well for the sailor lad, knowledge that everything in life eventually comes to an end. 8 That he sings in his boat on the bay! Everything around the speaker serves as a reminder that life is 9 And the stately ships go on fleeting. Even the waves crashing against the shoreline represent this idea of impermanence, since these waves no 10 To their haven under the hill; longer exist in their original form once they’ve broken over the 11 But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, rocks. This reinforces the idea that nothing in the natural world 12 And the sound of a voice that is still! lasts forever. And because people obviously exist in the natural world, this also holds true for everyone who has ever lived. 13 Break, break, break, With this in mind, the speaker watches two children playing 14 At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! happily together and knows that someday their youth will be a 15 But the tender grace of a day that is dead thing of the past. Similarly, the young sailor singing nearby will 16 Will never come back to me. someday be an old man, and the speaker will soon lose sight of the grand boats in the bay as they disappear from the horizon on their way to some unknown destination. Affronted by all of these ideas of change and transition, the speaker is unable to SUMMARY deny the impermanence of all things. This thought process is The speaker addresses the waves of the sea, telling them to made evident by the fact that the speaker goes from crash against the rocky shore again and again. Watching this considering the retreating ships to wistfully remembering the happen, the speaker yearns for the ability to express troubling “touch of a vanish’d hand”—a phrase that underscores the thoughts that won't go away. speaker’s dismay that humans effectively “vanish” through death. In the same way that the ships fade into the distance, Looking out onto the water, the speaker watches a fisherman's humans also drift away from life. son yelling out while playing with his sister, as well as a young sailor who sings while sailing through the cove. Of course, most people are well aware that nothing lasts, but not everyone finds this so troubling. It is, after all, a fact of There are also impressive boats sailing through the bay, and the existence, something many people simply accept. The speaker, speaker envisions them passing into ideal, somewhat heavenly however, is particularly unnerved by this because a close destinations. But watching these ships doesn't distract the acquaintance has recently died, making it difficult for the speaker from the memory of touching the hand of an speaker to stop thinking about the relentless passage of acquaintance who no longer exists, whose voice has gone silent time—there is, the speaker knows, no way to revisit the past to forever. spend more time with this friend, and this greatly upsets the Again, the speaker calls out to the waves as they smash against speaker. In this way, loss changes the way the speaker sees the cliffs along the shoreline again and again, feeling that the easy world, suddenly making it harder to accept the reality that all happiness of previous days will never return. things come to an end. Ironically enough, though, the only kind of permanence in the speaker’s life is loss itself, since nothing will ever reverse the death of this friend. No matter what happens, this person will “never come back” to the speaker. In turn, loss actually emerges ©2020 LitCharts LLC v.007 www.LitCharts.com Page 1 Get hundreds more LitCharts at www.litcharts.com as the only dependable thing in life, even if it forces people like engage with the present. In turn, readers see just how difficult the speaker to recognize that everything else about existence is it is to move on in moments of sorrow, especially when the impermanent. surrounding world seems so indifferent to a person’s pain and emotional suffering. Where this theme appears in the poem: Where this theme appears in the poem: • Lines 1-16 • Lines 1-16 THE DIFFICULTY OF MOVING ON Stricken by grief, the speaker can hardly imagine a LINE-BY-LINE ANALYSIS world in which it might be possible to embrace happiness and undertake normal activities like sailing in the bay. LINES 1-2 However, the speaker doesn’t need to imagine a world like this, Break, break, break, since this kind of carefree joy is playing out directly before the On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! speaker’s eyes. Despite the speaker’s grief, the world carries on like normal. The beginning of the poem is rhythmically intense, as the speaker repeats the word "break" to create a line of three This dynamic emphasizes the fact that what the speaker feels in stressed syllables in a row (this repetition is an example of this moment is at odds with the simple reality that the rest of epizeuxis). This relentless rhythm builds a startling opening the world is proceeding unbothered. The anguish that feels so that is reminiscent of the sound of powerful waves crashing debilitating to the speaker doesn’t even register for other over rocks on a shoreline—the exact thing that the speaker people, and this juxtaposition only heightens the speaker’s focuses on in the first stanza, calling out to the sea and telling it sorrow and makes it even harder to move on. Put another way, to "break" upon the nearby stones. the speaker’s pain has to do with the fact that life has gone on even though the speaker has been immobilized by grief. The alliteration in this line adds to this sense of emphasis, as the /br/ sound repeats three times. Similarly, the assonance that To illustrate the tension between the speaker and the external appears in the long /a/ sound ("break") pushes the effect of this world, “Break, Break, Break” plays with contrasts. For instance, repetition even further, making it sound even more untiring. In the first stanza presents a bleak setting, calling the stones on this way, the natural world surrounding the speaker emerges the shoreline “cold” and “gray,” and pairing this somber image right away as bleak and unforgiving. with the speaker’s inability to “utter” the troubling thoughts that continue to “arise.” This clearly establishes the speaker’s On the whole, the speaker's use of apostrophe to address the unhappiness, but the second stanza veers away from this sea not only establishes the setting of the poem (clarifying that gloomy tone as the speaker watches children playing nearby the speaker is standing on the shoreline), but also highlights and a sailor singing in the bay. Suddenly, the “cold” and “gray” that the speaker sees the surrounding environment as quite landscape of the poem transforms into a more lighthearted harsh. The speaker continues in line 2 to employ bleak terms, setting, one in which people go about their lives in a carefree using the words "cold" and "gray" in reference to the rocks on manner. This illustrates just how little others are affected by the shore. Along with the power of the first line, these the speaker’s grief—indeed, what the speaker sees as an descriptors make the scene of the poem feel hostile, as if the irrecoverable loss, the outside world doesn’t even notice. speaker is fixated on all the ways in which the surrounding world is cruel and inhospitable. The speaker, of course, is well aware that life won’t stop to accommodate a person’s individual sadness. With this in mind, This interpretation is reinforced by the metrical nuances of the the speaker uses a somewhat bitter tone when considering the first two lines: after the three consecutive stresses in the first happy people in the bay. By beginning the first and third lines of line, the poem's next stressed syllable lands on the word "cold": the second stanza with, “O, well for […],” the speaker frames their happiness as an affront, as if sarcastically saying, “Oh, how Break, break, break, nice for them.” This demonstrates that it is painful for the On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! speaker to witness such joy, making the process of moving on—the process of coping with loss—especially hard. "Break, Break, Break" is metrically complex, since it strays from convention in its use of rhythm. Having said that, the poem To make matters worse, the speaker is not only unable to move frequently employs trimeter (lines with three metrical feet), as on, but also conscious that the past is “dead” and will “never is the case in the second line.
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