GENERAL: The mood - I feel, when reading this poem, there's a foreboding, predatory, and restless force to it. Nature can do destructive things as well as make things beautiful. Two things that brings this to light in your poem is: "ripping boats, both old and new, from their moors;
beating the boulders into small smooth stones." There are other examples which I found interesting as well.

         Theme - "Waves" You created a poem that shows the force of these powerful waves and what it can do to the shorelines. It's ever changing and never know what you will find.

         Subject - What will you find when the waves recede?

         Interpretation - This poem is short but it has so much information and descriptions that I had to reread it a couple of times to take it all in. You brought out the feel of the waves, crashing against the shore. You showed us what can happen by the force of these waves, that it can bring something new to the shores as well as changing the shoreline and what is moored there.

CONVENTION: Meter- Let's see, what I counted was ten syllables to each line and there are eight lines, an octave poem. Your rhyme, is couplet, each two lines of your poem is of the same length and completes one thought.

         All aspects of figurative language - What I found interesting about this poem is the first two lines and the last two lines rhymes. They are almost alike but still different. Like the first two lines ends with shores and moors and the last two sentences end with shore and more.

FAVOURITE LINES: A section of your poem that really stands out for me is:

ripping boats, both old and new, from their moors;
beating the boulders into small smooth stones;

These lines show best what powerful force these wave can have when they come ashore. Water can look beautiful when it's calm and easy sailing, but when the weather changes, so does the waves. This is what I think this author is trying to show so beautifully in this poem.


This poem made me remember the family vacation we took to Virginia Beach. Seeing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time was breath-taking and a thrill for all of us. Sitting and watching the waves come in, hearing the power behind each wave was a little overwhelming for this Minnesotan. Going beach-combing in the morning brought us many mementos that our family treasure always.



Take care now, keep on writing, I’ll keep on reading,
Jeannie🌺



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