Like the Water By Wendell Berry

Poem Like the water Of a deep stream, Love is always to much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, We cannot have it all, Or want it all. In its abundance It survives our thirst. In the evening we come down to the shore To drink our fill, And sleep, While it flows Through the regions of the dark. It does not hold us, Except we keep returning to its rich waters Thirsty We enter, Willing to die, Into the commonwealth of its joy

Analysis of the poem In the first part of the poem, he/she talks about how overwhelming love can be. In the second part of the poem he/she describes our thirst for love. When we are about to lose it we want it the most. In the final part, he/she says we keep coming back to it even though we might not survive.

Analysis of the poem It is about love and hard times The narrator is a person giving up on love He/she is talking to someone that person used to love The message is that love is overrated, but we still look for it He/she says love is like the water We are never full, so we are willing to drown.

Our poem I want to be in the water Like a furious sea otter When I think about the sea I think about all the dinosaur pee The problem is I am my mothers daughter And therefor I am a river otter By: Sanna Dahlberg, Linn Torstensson and Emma Ängteg