BLM_Unfathomable_Sea_by_Percy_B._Shelly

__Unfathomable Sea by [|Percy B. Shelly]__ **Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality!.

And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore; Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable Sea? ** metaphors present in the poem

In __Unfathomable Sea__ Percy B. Shelly communicates his poem's higher purpose through the plethora of metaphors in the poem. This poem illustates a the sea as a vast and powerfull being, beyond anyone's controll and comemmorates the people brave enough to sail it, which is the poem's higher purpose. It takes a truly bold soul to cross the ocean, where they will be suceptible to storms, running out of water, getting lost or sinking. In his time, people who went on a voyage left their families behind for many years without any assurances that they might be alive to return to them at the end of their journey. Percy B. Shelly salutes the seamen (and women) of the world through this poem.

Exactly - Shelly paints a fairly grim portrait of the sea, and it serves as a true warning to the readers. Yet the poem does celebrate the hearty sailor with its question at the end - as if Shelly knows that men and women will continue to sail, no matter the dangers. You've identified that crisply and clearly.