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lightness of Dolphins.”
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EVIDENCE (quote)
The poem “Watching for Dolphins” is about dreams
ESSAY 1:
finished with Juana
everything, you have to
or other times
and feeling miserable, they have to
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and sadness.Dolphins, and their dreams destroyed.
land in the and without any raised to a
a flat calm dolphins “Praying the sky
to appear. They wanted something were losing faith. “Every face after
lose every other about them “Passed forward through
on the sea”.Thir only wish to that experience, people wanted their of the poem
The poem “Watching for Dolphins” is about dreams and lifted the of disappointment the
among the great -“Praying the sky raised to a a flat calm
Stanzas: 3 & 4wish”the small door
IDEASEssay:it:
the 12th we be negative about
to get it were very dissapointed
Personal Opinion
saint”the tone of imagine themselves watching
The fifth stanza
turning to nervousness the tone starts the tone is
can hurt. 2) Man and nature Introduces the reader It's summer time, people in a
company
the great tankers, under their chainsfelt them goelement, three or four
laughed and lifted On the waves, on the climax
the abused AegeanAfter its character Screeching from the
the wind between Undecided whether a
Would see dolphins occasion
Turned their desires into the bowsLooks and no
certain passengers soon Whatching for dolphins.
to land in seen the dolphins
into the deep On grace, and heavily and Stranger to stranger, pointing how with
comeWe could not All, unaccustomed, wanted epiphany,
an unremarkable place
To a likeness favourableOr on their
saint, through sad bi-focals; others,
mandolphins. One saw them common purposeFrom seats in months on every
then everyone had with Pat, we read Whatching
