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can be heard and the frequency of a certain event. In the first half of the poem it is
used to refer to the sound coming from the whale, but in the second half of the
poem it is used to describe event that she missed (i.e. a frequency I cannot return
to) and the way she hopes with frequency.
In the last 8 lines of the poem it heavily talks about the feeling of the whale
and the speaker. The speaker mentions that she is being a Romantic thinking that
the whale cared that s/he is lonely and that he knew of his/her situation that is
why he is crying to humans since his/her own kind cannot hear him/her. But then
you can also think of this part as her projecting or expressing her thoughts and
loneliness. The whale and the persona crying out can imply that they are simply
trying to find somebody or something that can truly understand albeit the
possibility of no one doing so. This reflects our human nature to crave for our
soulmates to complete and understand us. We keep doing so because there is
this slight glimmer of hope that as long as you are alive you might still meet them.
Jiara Laine Montano
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