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The imagery created in the line "The grey sea and the long black land" helps capture what will be happening during this poem. It shows a theme of storminess and darkness throughout the first stanza. I chose this picture of the rough sea crashing into the rocks to demonstrate the unsettling feeling instead of the calmness that is usually noted. In the second stanza it says, "Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach." In this later line the entire emotional tone is turning. The poem is becoming lighter and moves forward toward love. The grey sea represents doom and loss. The long black land creates an image of walking on forever never quite finding the right answer. Another take on "the long black land" is that the emotion is lonely and anxious. Maybe the author is waiting for his love which possibly makes him nervous and feel like time is going second by second instead of hour by hour or day by day.