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What does poet tries to say in the poem .
Adrift a little boat Adrift.

Answer 1

Answer:

Here we have two competing versions of what happens to the little boat: Sailors say it sank at dusk (the "So Sailors say" can be read as "Sailors said that"), while angels say that the little boat (we assume it is the same boat) fixed itself and "shot' on exultantly. The tension in the poem comes from the first stanza where we see the little boat adrift with night coming and no help in sight. We read this to mean a soul floundering with death at hand. Other citizens of the sea only see a sad death, sadder when we think of the soul gurgling 'down and down' as opposed to ascending to heaven.

    But! even though the soul was tired and had even been defeated by the storms of life, it managed to right itself at the end and go on, we assume, to heaven. Dawn is the arising of the sun, life and birth;whereas dusk is nightfall or death, so Dickinson is not making the symbolism difficult here.  

    She uses the ballad or hymn structure for the first two quatrains with the second and fourth lines rhymed. The last stanza is five lines with the third and fourth lines rhymed. The extra line, "And shot--exultant on!" provides the happy ending to the ballad. It could be a refrain if this were indeed a hymn.

    The imagery is conventional: the sea of life, the little boat of the soul, the storms of life, the need to adjust the sails; and so is the message. It's a nice little poem, but not one of my favs.

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Answer 2

"Adrift! A little boat adrift!" by Emily Dickinson.

Explanation:

• In the poem "Adrift! A little boat adrift!", the poet wants the readers to understand that people view different circumstances in their own different perspectives.
• She says this by presenting two contradicting perspective about the lost boat in the sea. While the people lamented that the boat had sank in the sea, the angels exalted that the sailors had given a good fight and rejoiced the efforts of the sailors.
• Similarly, there are also two ways of viewing things in life. The poet tries to say that it all depends on how we view circumstances in life.  While some may view circumstances negatively, some view it positively.

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