What is the message of poem break break break?

Answer 1

he speaker is looking at the ocean and wishing he knew how to express his grief. He sees a fisherman's kid hanging out with his sister, and he hears a sailor singing, but they don't cheer him up - they just remind him of the "voice that is still," or the voice of his dead friend that he can't talk to anymore. The ocean waves keep breaking on the beach, and time keeps marching on, but the speaker can't go back in time to when his friend was still alive.

Answer 2

The speaker in the poem is telling how grief suffocates him to the point of not being able to voice his thoughts (stanza 1) and that even the cheerfulness of the people around him (stanza 2; shouts of fisherman w/ his sister & sings in his boat on the bay) could not cheer him up or make him feel better. In the 3rd stanza, he vaguely told about the ships but he doesn't really care about those. He also told us about someone he lost and it's the reason why he is grieving (voice that is still implies death). Finally, in the last and 4th stanza, he sounded remorseful and mournful because the good old days with this someone he lost would never come back again.

Answer 3

The poem "Break, Break, Break" by Alfred Lord Tennyson expresses the poet's grief over the loss of a close friend. The repeated use of the word "break" signifies the poet's emotional pain and longing for his friend. The poem reflects themes of loss, mourning, and the transient nature of life.

Answer 4

The message is to forget the past as it cannot be changed.