While the crowd celebrates, the sailor remains on the ship, pacing sadly next to his dead captain.He wants them to keep cheering and celebrating the homecoming of the ship and the success of the mission. Really, though, the speaker uses the shores as a symbol to represent the crowds of people standing there.Using a part of the land to represent the whole is again (you guessed it) synecdoche.Why would just the speaker just be interested in the shores, though? Even though, on a boat, the shore would be the closest part of land, here the speaker means for the whole country to celebrate.Since neither shores nor bells are actually alive, this appeal to inanimate objects represents more apostrophes by our speaker. And now that the speaker is in the harbor, he calls out to the shores and the bells to party down.Hurray!Įxult, O shores, and ring, O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. Why is it victorious? Well, it’s won its object, met its goal.“Victor ship” here means the victorious ship, not a ship named Victor.The speaker reminds us that the trip was difficult and dangerous, but the mission was a success.The ship finally arrives safely in the harbor and drops its anchor.The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won Here, “will” means the ability to do something, like move. While acknowledging the greatness of the victorious return of the ship to port, the poem also laments the loss of the leader responsible. The Captain responsible for the safe return of his ship and crew has died before reaching port, and the narrator is grief stricken at the loss. Sadly, the color has left the captain’s face and he has no pulse. The poem describes a victorious homecoming of a ship.Again, the captain is referred to as the speaker’s father, underscoring their bond.With another synecdoche, the speaker focuses on the captain’s lips to represent his general state of death. The dead captain, unsurprisingly, doesn’t respond to the sailor’s cries.My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will
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