Stormy ocean by G.G.Byron 5E by https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1 Realizzato con gioia en-us 2018-10-29 07:11:36 UTC 2026-01-13 11:54:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png Stanza 2 maria_grazia_ros https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1/wish/297890529 The second stanza deals with man’s power compared to that of the ocean. 
Harold contrasts man’s power with that of the sea. The former ends where the latter begins: man has no power beyond the shore where the power of the ocean starts. Man is owerwhelmed by the power of the sea and disappears in its depths without even a funeral.]]> 2018-10-29 07:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1/wish/297890529 Stanza 3 maria_grazia_ros https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1/wish/297890916 The third stanza is about the beahaviour of the ocean towards mankind. The ocean appears unpredictable, hostile; indeed, he casts man away from its bosom into the sky.
The ocean is merciless while man is lost in dispair,small and unimportant. 

]]> 2018-10-29 07:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1/wish/297890916 Stanza 5 maria_grazia_ros https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1/wish/297891272 The fifth stanza deals with the comparison between the caducity of whatever man creates and the unchangeability of the ocean.
Byron mentions the Assyrian, Grecian, Roman and Carthaginian empires which have fallen or decayed, have been ruined and destroyed. 
Byron also uses an important figure of speech, i.e. the personification of the sea that is “Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow” (line 44).
]]> 2018-10-29 07:17:43 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1/wish/297891272 Stanza 7 maria_grazia_ros https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1/wish/297892096 The last stanza - the most personal of the poem - is about the author's feelings towards the ocean. 
Harold's soul is filled with joy.
The freshening waves reminds him the pleasing fear he used to feel when he played with them as a boy.
In the last two lines he expresses his love and trust for billows through the powerfull metaphore of laying his hand upon the ''mane'' of the ocean as he would do on a horse.
Besides the metaphore (last two lines) and the oxymoron ("pleasing fear") there is also an apostrophe in the first line.]]> 2018-10-29 07:22:55 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1/wish/297892096 Stanza 4 https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1/wish/297941606 In the fourth stanza the poet gives examples of men powers such as the Incivibile Armada or the battle of Trafalgar.
Men are meaningless compared to the power of the ocean; the poet uses a simile to express the weakness of men which are like toys and snowflakes that melt into his water]]> 2018-10-29 11:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1/wish/297941606 Stanza 1 https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1/wish/299920385 The first stanza is about the poet's attitude towards society and nature. The poet taskes pleasure in the contact with nature, he loves more them men. Nature is an unexplored, isolated place where Byron finds his place in the universe. 
In the first three lines there is a parallelism; other figures of speech are the paradox (lines 3 and 9).]]> 2018-11-02 17:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1/wish/299920385 Stanza 6 e_nicocope00 https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1/wish/303807347 In the sixth stanza the ocean powers and greatness are conveyed with powerfull images such as the image of eternity, the throne of the invisible. They give us an idea of how limitless and dreadfull the powers of the ocean are. ]]> 2018-11-13 15:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_grazia_ros/wfznz0vcapf1/wish/303807347