LOST
DESOLATE and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In tears and trouble
Hunting the harbor's breast
And the harbor's eyes.
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In tears and trouble
Hunting the harbor's breast
And the harbor's eyes.
The poem takes place on a lake at night. The boat cannot find the harbor, so we can assume that it is a wide, large lake. Since Carl was born and raised in Chicago, we can tell that the lake refers to Lake Michigan.
As the narrator says, "like some lost child", this poem is a metaphor of a child. Both the boat and the child are looking for something desperately; the child is looking for his mom, for he is "in tears and trouble hunting the harbor's breast and the harbor's eyes." The writer personifies harbor and compares it to mother, who always means safety to a child. However, the boat (or the child) doesn't seek for help; it tries to find the harbor by itself.
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