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essay, you are going to analyze a sports poem that explores the complexities of personal relationships. the poem is Water and Light.

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ESSAY #1: SPORTS AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Rough Draft Due: Wednesday, September 12 Final Draft Due: Wednesday, September 19 Length: 1000 words (3-4 pages) The assignment. For this first essay, you are going to analyze a sports poem that explores the complexities of personal relationships. • “Water & Light” (37) Going about it. Take some time to read over several of the poems listed above. By Friday, September 7, let me know in order the top three poems you wish to write on (My hope is to give everyone his/her first choice, but I may have to give students a second or third choice in order to assure some variety in topics). Once you have been given the go ahead for your poem, read it carefully, highlighting key words and images and taking notes that address the following questions: • Who is the speaker in the poem? • What is the nature and condition of the relationship being explored? • How are sports used in the exploration of this particular relationship? Do sports help the characters make a meaningful connection? Do sports prevent characters from interacting in a healthy or productive way? • What are key lines, images, and words that help to develop the theme of personal relationships? • To what extent do the form and style of the poem reinforce what the poem is about? Eventually, you will need to generate a thesis—a main idea, an arguable assertion about some aspect of the work (something to do with sports and personal relationships). This thesis will be supported by unified, well-developed paragraphs full of specific detail from poem as well as analysis of that detail. NOTE: NO OUTSIDE SOURCES ARE TO BE USED FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT. Format. Make sure you format your essay according to the MLA style (see pp. 5-6 of syllabus). Be sure to use parenthetical citations when quoting from your poem. Be sure to create a Works Cited page. In order to save paper, you may present this “page” immediately following the text of your essay. Simply quadruple space after the last line of your essay, center the words “Work Cited” (do not, however, use quotation marks), double space, and type your entry. Water & Light NOAH BLAUSTEIN It was too soon To think of her passing, So I passed Evenings in the water. I wanted to look Like a boy out for a surf And go from a boy To a shadow Against the colored horizon And from a shadow To being the sun, a part of the sun As it slipped over the other side. I was happy enough, On clear days, To float And see a "bottom" underneath me. I forgot Waves. I forgot The shore. Sand shifted in the undercurrent Along the bottom and, As the sun got lower, Clear water turned Into the purples and oranges of reflection And my wetsuit Became a part Of that reflection Rodeo Tange KENDRA As the sky went black, slowly, The water went black, Slowly, and I lost sight Of my feet. I lost sense Of what moved beneath me, I lost track Of what swelled towards me. Decisions by instinct That was fear. Cold water, sitting on the edge of light, The willful deprivation of sense - Woman in this hair- was her drinking jewelry is it on look lik when it scorch - who - how did sh with t -hay there blind hers her doe -d doe mg My Baptist friend says ***You were trying to cross over, To get as close to her as you could Without leaving entirely." U On shore, shadows Shifting through trash cans, The sound of santa anas drying leaves, Brought me back. On shore, I changed quickly Stripped my wetsuit into puddles Of headlights on the highway, Let the wind mix the salt into my brow.
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The Effect of Death on Relationships
In Noah Blaustein’s poem “Water and Light,” the speaker uses surfing as a sport to
address their grief after a close person had passed on. In this poem, the sport acts as a distraction
and a point of connection with the speaker’s pain. The speaker explains how he cannot believe
that his friend has passed on and thus goes surfing with the intentions of releasing his tension and
anxiety through the connection with his sport. This poem connects the sport of surfing with the
grief of the speaker who seeks solace in the water and light of day. Blaustein’s poem uses surfing
as a sport to heal the wounds of a relationship that ended due to death of a partner and hence
shows how sports is a way of enhancing and recalling relationships in families and among
friends as well.
The speaker in the poem brings out an intimate relationship which the poem addresses by
presenting his gender and the gender of the friend who passed. At the beginning of the poem, the
speaker says: “it was too soon to think of her passing” (Blaustein 1-2). These lines show that the
person being referred to was female. Later on, in the second stanza, the speaker says that he
wanted to look “like a boy out for a surf and go from a boy to a shadow” (6-8). These two sets of
lines identify the speaker as a young man or boy who loved surfing. Furthermore, they also
introduce the rea...


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