Question

Explain poem please

Answer 1

Brontë's love of the sea is expressed in this poem. In it, the sea is portrayed as "the great liberator".[1]

The line "the long withered grass in the sunshine is glancing" and the footnote she wrote at the bottom of the poem reveals that Brontë "loved wild weather, as she loved the sea, and hard country and snow".[2] The poem further indicates the power and spiritual affect of the wind.[3]

The errors in punctuation on lines five and nine, as well as the erasures before "sunshine" and "above" suggest that the poem was written hastily.[4] One interpretation by Winidred Gerin says that in the poem "emotion and expression have achieved a fusion as felicitous as it is rare in Brontë's writing, is probably the best poem she ever wrote, though not the most characteristic