Available Answers

1. 1.

   Who or what is being addressed in the first line?

2. 2.

   What does the speaker wish he could do in the first stanza? What does it show about his state of mind?

3. 3.

   Who are the people mentioned in the second stanza? Where are they and what are they doing?

4. 4.

   The speaker notices ships. But is he disturbed by them? How do you know whether he is disturbed or not?

5. 5.

   Whose hand and voice is the speaker reminded of? What does he wish to do at this point?

6. 6.

   The speaker says something 'will never come back' to him. What? Why?