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The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to ocean -
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.
Robert Frost
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Read poems about / on: ocean, heart
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Comments about this poem (Devotion
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Andrew Hoellering (12/28/2009 3:21:00 AM)
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Frost is able to capture so much in just a few words.
‘Shore to ocean’ is a most effective metaphor, its static quality brilliant enhanced by the waves implied in the last line of the poem.
The constancy and reliability suggested here is implicit in the phrase ‘for better or worse, for richer or poorer’ as it is also present in Hamlet’s ‘this above all, to thine own self be true.'
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Aashish Ameya (9/20/2007 2:51:00 AM)
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great thought in this poem.....
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Margot Anderson (11/12/2006 2:02:00 PM)
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There's a really neat sculpture outside the Burbank Branch of the Portland Public Library (Portland, ME, that is) in tribute to this poem. Check it out if you're in town.
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