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Seaweed
Seaweed is a good example of imagery in the poem. The word works on
two senses, sight and smell. The word is also another in the chain of
references to water and ships
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The tendency of loose, seemingly unorganized seaweed to gather around
objects is the ocean's equivalent of weeds growing up around abandoned
objects on land. Its strong smell also suggests decay.
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