1. Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
Emily Dickinson

2. Ocean Voyage Extended Metaphor
relationship = An ocean voyage whose course cannot be predicted
port = lover ship = speaker
sea = life

3. Wild nights. Wild nights
Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee, Wild nights should be Our luxury!
were I +
would be
= uncertainty

4. Futile the winds To a heart in port,

5. Done with the Compass — Done with the Chart!

6. No Use for Chart & compass
We cannot “chart the course” of a relationship.
Would we want to??

7. Rowing in Eden! Ah! the sea!

8. Might I but moor To-night in thee!
MIGHT = still uncertain, unfulfilled