1. The Ocean
The days gone by
Destiny Colon
Period 5
Poetry Project

2. The Days Gone By
By James Whitcomb Riley
O the days gone by! O the days gone by! The apples in the orchard, and the pathway through the rye; The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of the quail As he piped across the meadows sweet as any nightingale; When the bloom was on the clover, and the blue was in the sky, And my happy heart brimmed over in the days gone by. In the days gone by, when my naked feet were tripped By the honey-suckle’s tangles where the water-lilies dipped, And the ripples of the river lipped the moss along the brink Where the placid-eyed and lazy-footed cattle came to drink, And the tilting snipe stood fearless of the truant’s wayward cry And the splashing of the swimmer, in the days gone by. O the days gone by! O the days gone by! The music of the laughing lip, the luster of the eye; The childish faith in fairies, and Aladdin’s magic ring— The simple, soul-reposing, glad belief in everything,— When life was like a story, holding neither sob nor sigh, In the golden olden glory of the days gone by.

3. The Ocean
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Ocean has its silent caves, Deep, quiet, and alone; Though there be fury on the waves, Beneath them there is none. The awful spirits of the deep Hold their communion there; And there are those for whom we weep, The young, the bright, the fair. Calmly the wearied seamen rest Beneath their own blue sea. The ocean solitudes are blest, For there is purity. The earth has guilt, the earth has care, Unquiet are its graves; But peaceful sleep is ever there, Beneath the dark blue waves.

4. Biographical Information
Nathanial Hawthorne was born and raised in New England.
He attended “Bowden College”, and while he was in school that’s when he decided to begin writing. He found interest in writing tales and romance. And a little after that he wrote he began to start writing American stories and novels.
Nathaniel published “Young Goodman Brown” (1835). He also published a novel called “Ethan Brand” (1850). His writing influenced Melville, (dedicated Moby Dick TO Hawthorne) Nathaniel’s recognition was to use a symbolic method and dark elements to show the dark side of the human experiences.
His style of poetry was to write about tales, ling fiction that contains romance and “psychological realism.”
Extra Facts: Hawthorne chose to mainly write about American life. Especially writing about the history of New England and American ancestors.

5. Structure Hawthorne uses 4 stanzas and the poem has 16 lines.
The Ocean
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Ocean has its silent caves, Deep, quiet, and alone; Though there be fury on the waves, Beneath them there is none. The awful spirits of the deep Hold their communion there; And there are those for whom we weep, The young, the bright, the fair. Calmly the wearied seamen rest Beneath their own blue sea. The ocean solitudes are blest, For there is purity. The earth has guilt, the earth has care, Unquiet are its graves; But peaceful sleep is ever there, Beneath the dark blue waves.
Hawthorne uses 4 stanzas and the poem has 16 lines.
The rhyme scheme is an end rhyme due to the last words of the lines rhyming with the ones before them.
With this type of rhyme scheme is adding a lyrical quality with the poem and with it the reader is encouraged to get to the end of the line.
This poem seems to be written in a formal manner so the poem itself is clean and well written.

6. The Ocean
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Ocean has its silent caves, Deep, quiet, and alone; Though there be fury on the waves, Beneath them there is none. The awful spirits of the deep Hold their communion there; And there are those for whom we weep, The young, the bright, the fair. Calmly the wearied seamen rest Beneath their own blue sea. The ocean solitudes are blest, For there is purity. The earth has guilt, the earth has care, Unquiet are its graves; But peaceful sleep is ever there, Beneath the dark blue waves
Speaker of the Poem
The speaker of the poem seems to be a person who has realized that there is a lot of dark things in the world and that not everything is happiness.
The speaker must have had experienced something negative which is why he chose to express the way he felt in this way.
The speaker seems to have taken the experience and realization to heart and it left an imprint in his mind. He now can see the negativity that is out in the world much more clearer.

7. The Ocean
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Ocean has its silent caves, Deep, quiet, and alone; Though there be fury on the waves, Beneath them there is none. The awful spirits of the deep Hold their communion there; And there are those for whom we weep, The young, the bright, the fair. Calmly the wearied seamen rest Beneath their own blue sea. The ocean solitudes are blest, For there is purity. The earth has guilt, the earth has care, Unquiet are its graves; But peaceful sleep is ever there, Beneath the dark blue waves
Literary Elements
End Rhyme- Each line has a paired rhyme all the way through to the end of the poem.
With this type of rhyme scheme its common for the poem to develop a “beat” like rhythm.
Personification- Thoughts and emotions are given to something that is incapable of feeling.

8. Literary Elements
The earth has guilt, the earth has care, Unquiet are its graves; But peaceful sleep is ever there, Beneath the dark blue waves
End Rhyme- each line has a paired rhyme
Personification- Emotions have been given to the earth when the earth really can’t feel anything.

9. The Ocean has its silent caves, Deep, quiet, and alone; Though there be fury on the waves, Beneath them there is none.
Literal Meaning
End Rhyme- Each line has a paired rhyme
Imagery- Hawthorne is using images of nature to show how he feels by adding it to things in nature such as the ocean.
Personification- Hawthorne used personification by using the guilt and care, the earth doesn’t occupy feelings.
The earth has guilt, the earth has care, Unquiet are its graves; But peaceful sleep is ever there, Beneath the dark blue waves

10. Figurative meaning

11. Authors purpose

12. Theme