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An Analysis Of Elinor Wiley's Sea Lullaby

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In Elinor Wiley’s poem, “Sea Lullaby”, the speaker talks about a little boy drowning in the sea. The speaker tries to convey their message about how the sea is dangerous by using personification, rhythm and imagery. In the first two stanzas of this poem the speaker uses both similes and personification. After a reader reads the first stanza, they have an idea about how this poem is violent and dark, “with colour like blood”, is what the speaker uses to describe dead leaves. In the second stanza the speaker uses diction to help give the reader a closer look at what this poem is about. Words like “treacherous”, and “beguiler”, are used, which are both words that have dark/violent meanings.
In the third and fourth stanzas the speaker continues
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