Sunday, May 6, 2001

The Forsaken Merman Comments

Rating: 2.8

Come, dear children, let us away;
Down and away below!
Now my brothers call from the bay,
Now the great winds shoreward blow,
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Matthew Arnold
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Roberta Rizzo 06 April 2005

In his bitterness, the merman compares the 'white-walled town' to the beautiful sea (his home) in such a way that we tend to symphatize with the merman. his description of the sea is wonderful. The coontarst of sound and colour between sea and town is d most interesting.

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