Neither Out Far Nor In Deep Comments

I 😍this poems by Robert Frost

I've always loved this poem since living 3 years on Cape Cod many years ago. It is exactly how I feel about being on the beach.

Such a brilliant poem... They cannot look out far. They cannot look in deep. But when was that ever a bar To any watch they keep?

The sea is a reflection of human consciousness, we cannot look out far nor in deep, but the changes to the sea (loss of sea life, atmospheric changes, jellyfish blooms and their mindless spineless consumption) are the metaphysical changes we see in

Frost tells us things about human nature, that perhaps we knew but had not taken notice of. We see ourselves anew through his eyes.

wow this one speaks volumes..an awesome write..fabulous.. :)

I have always loved this poem. It speaks to me of the more general way in which we are drawn so often to look or dwell about something even if we haven't an idea why. The sea does this and so do some people for each of us. I take some disagreement, though I know what he means, with what Frost says about the land varying more. Yes, obviously it does in terms of visible topography but one of the things that draws us to the sea and the coastal edge is surely its restlessness and changeability almost from moment to moment. This was beautifully captured by A.R. Ammons in his poem, 'Corsons Inlet' and is also imminent in the famous second stanza of Eliot's The Dry Salvages. It would be nice if the typo in the penultimate line (Btu) was corrected.