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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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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...