Apostrophe to the Ocean

1. Apostrophe to the Ocean Jay Mehta

2. Apostrophe • Apostrophe-a figure of speech in which an object, an abstract quality or an absent or imaginary person is addressed directly, as if present and able to understand. • The apostrophe’s of this poem are the universe and nature and the poem also compares the ocean to man • ‘’ I love not Man the less, but Nature more’’ • ‘’ To mingle with the Universe’’

3. Speaker • Speaker- the voice that “talks” to the reader • The speaker of this poem is the author and he is describing a young man’s view of foreign lands

4. First Stanza • There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
   • There is a rapture on the lonely shore, • There is society where none intrudes,                                 • By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
   • I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
   • From these our interviews, in which I steal
   • From all I may be, or have been before,
  • To mingle with the Universe, and feel • What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.