With close reference to the two texts, compare the ways the sea and things associated with it are important in both texts.
Both texts, lament and dreamers, touch on the idea of grief and acceptance by using imagery of the ocean. In lament we see Colquhoun use repetition with the phrase; “Buck has gone out fishing.” It can be assumed that Buck is someone dear to the protagonist, and they have passed. The repeated phrase tells the audience that Buck is not around, and later in the poem we get the sense that Buck is dead because of similes such as; “Seagulls flock like angels in the distance.” In dreamers we see a similar use of sea imagery to discuss a passing. The techniques used a personification and metaphor. “The rough tempestuous sea had come and taken him; it had enfolded him in its generous arms and carried him to the sea floor where he sang with the mermaids.”
