Friday, April 24, 2009
Seaman's Ditty by Gary Snyder
This poem gives me the impression that the poet is sort of regretting a love or a close one that he missed. Like they had the chance to build and grow a home and family together but werent arent able to and the memory of thinking back in their past is paining him. They also werent ready for these types of commitments and let time past as they grew apart from each other. When he mentions "gulls" i assume that he probably feels cheated in life for not being able to committ to a house and family as the years went by. But im sort of lost at the last 4 lines of the poem....is he trying to say that he rather had discovered the world and find the mysteries of it then had stayed in a relationship and missed out on it all? A little help plz...
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Well there is something here about the lack/lonliness of a life disconnected from the personal, intimate relationship with another. Try to relate this to other Snyder poems, such as "The Bath," in which the personal and intimate is a hinge, or gateway, to the universal (watch the repeated image, in the latter poem, "this is our body"--how does it alter/accumulate significance with repetition in new contexts)
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