Who wrote George Gray?
Edgar Lee Masters
Born in Kansas in 1868, Edgar Lee Masters wrote several collections of verse, including the popular Spoon River Anthology in 1915.
What literary device is it is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid?
“It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.” making fun of one’s stupidity using irony or comedy, normally used in a slapstick way for political ideas.
Which line S from the poem extends the metaphor for the speaker’s life that is introduced in the first stanza of the poem?
“It is a boat longing for the sea.” Which line(s) from the poem extends the metaphor for the speaker’s life that is introduced in the first stanza of the poem? To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness. It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.