Apostrophe to the Ocean Jay Mehta

Apostrophe Apostrophe-a figure of speech in which an object, an abstract quality or an absent or imaginary person is addressed directly, as if present and able to understand. The apostrophe’s of this poem are the universe and nature and the poem also compares the ocean to man ‘’ I love not Man the less, but Nature more’’ ‘’ To mingle with the Universe’’

Speaker Speaker- the voice that “talks” to the reader The speaker of this poem is the author and he is describing a young man’s view of foreign lands

First Stanza There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.