Topic > "Once By The Pacific" - 514

Storms of varying duration and intensity occur around the world, and many writers try to capture what it feels like to weather them. Storms have destroyed towns and cities, caused death, and lives and uprooted houses. There were many artistic ways to show these storms: how they rose, came and conquered. Writers took this and tried to portray those actions on paper, but not many succeeded in showing the storm Frost's "Once by the Pacific" portrayed the central message and image of how nature is an unstoppable force and should be feared. Frost describes a storm that could be along the lines of a tsunami or a hurricane, both being forces tragic ones that would destroy everything in its path. He writes in his poem: "Great waves looked at the others coming and thought of doing something to the shore that the water had never done before" (2-4). predicts total destruction. It is almost evil in nature. Every word is full of tension, as it foreshadows that what is about to happen will happen...