The The Sound of Waves quotes below are all either spoken by Jukichi Oyama or refer to Jukichi Oyama. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ). Chapter 11 Quotes “I know...
After the poem's first two halting, end-stopped lines, this rush of enjambments makes it sound as if the speaker is suddenly overflowing with anxiety—so much so that their stream of words carries them all the way into the next stanza. And the thing they fear sounds like something right...
Line 9 has alliteration through the phrase "Which waves," which is part of the stanza's broader heavy use of consonance, assonance, and sibilance. All of these techniques function as ornamentation, intended to make the stanza sound "prettier" in order to reflect the woman's beauty. Antithe...