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Vickie Haglund
September 27, 2014
English 250
Poetry Exam
"Diving into the Wreck" is an incredible adventure. Adrienne Rich takes us on a
mysterious underwater voyage in this poem. Sea creatures, sunken treasure, dead bodies, and
mysteries abound. It's like some cool documentary about the wreck of a pirate ship. The title,
"Diving into the Wreck," lays out the basic idea here. To put it simply, the speaker is a diver,
looking for the wreck of a ship beneath the ocean. She puts on scuba gear, and describes the
process of descending to the wreck. First we hear about the trip down the ladder into the water,
and then the big, scary, amazing feeling of entering the ocean. The sea and its life are all around,
and then the speaker arrives at the wreck.
