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  • May 16, 2012, 07:59 PM
    break01213
    She can't find a place to settle or something. And I think a bark is like a boat or a ship
  • May 16, 2012, 08:06 PM
    Wondergirl
    Her life was unsettled and she was lost at sea, but now her ship is on its way home.
  • May 16, 2012, 08:07 PM
    Wondergirl
    And this verse?

    Farewell, dark and rolling deep!
    Farewell, foreign shore!
    Open, in unclouded sweep,
    Thou glorious realm before!
    Yet, though I had safely pass'd
    That weary, vexed main,
    One loved voice, through surge and blast
    Could call me back again.
  • May 16, 2012, 08:34 PM
    break01213
    Even though she is safely leaving a voice in her head can tell her to come back
  • May 16, 2012, 08:36 PM
    Wondergirl
    And finally (William is her husband) --

    Though the soul's bright morning rose
    O'er Paradise for me,
    William! even from Heaven's repose
    I'd turn, invoked by thee!
    Storm nor surge should e'er arrest
    My soul, exalting then:
    All my heaven was once thy breast,
    Would it were mine again
  • May 16, 2012, 09:01 PM
    break01213
    I don't know the first two lines but she won't let the waves stop her from coming back. But she wants to return to the feelings she had with her husband.
  • May 16, 2012, 09:17 PM
    Wondergirl
    Yes, his embrace once seemed like heaven, and she'd like to return to that feeling.
  • May 16, 2012, 09:18 PM
    Wondergirl
    There are three poems that add to the story that is in this one.

    Are you good with this poem?
  • May 16, 2012, 10:08 PM
    break01213
    Ya I am now, thank you sooo much for helping me with this
  • May 16, 2012, 10:13 PM
    Wondergirl
    Let me know what happened in class.
  • May 16, 2012, 10:15 PM
    break01213
    Sure, thanks again :)

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