My Artistic Inerpretation of The Sea

So this is my mixed tape for the sea. Well, it's a mix CD actually, but i feel like calling it a mixed tape makes it more romantic, since that takes more effort. This compact disc is comprised of 14 songs that I listen to frequently enough to feel attached to, all relating in some way to the sea. Some are about the sea and romance, some are religious, others are about personal growth and still others are totally random. The greatest thing about such a CD is that if you chose to listen to just one song, you would have a fixed impression of what is being conveyed about the Sea. But if you listened to the entire thing, you would see so much more. You could understand the way the Sea shapes people, gives them a home and takes up their sorrows. It provides relief but also is a reminder of pain. Each of these songs could represent thousands of people. 

I feel that Edna's journey most closely relates to "Dive" by Steven Curtis Chapman. While this is a religious song, it parallels Edna's journey. The "long awaited rains" have fallen upon the "thirsty ground," and he speaker knows there is no turning back "once my feet have left the ledge," and "caught in the rush, lost in the flow, in over my head i want to go." Edna has this same experience of completely giving herself over to the Sea. She lets go of all of her preconceptions and responsibilities at that one moment and completely dives under. 

Santiago is different though, and his journey is more like Jack Johnson's "Monsoon." As Santiago feels, "All of life/Is in one drop of the Ocean." Santiago's theory that life will continue on despite human discomfort is reflected in The Sea-Limits poem, and also this song, which says waves "Always break all in due time/Cause time never waits." Santiago knows that whether he kills the fish or the fish kills him, life will go on. He might wish for the help of the boy, but if the boy isn't there, nothing can be done. Johnson captures this "show must go on" attitude well in his song.

All of these songs are different, but all of them use the sea to express something similar--that we might be powerless to change something, like the sea, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. We still deserve love by the seaside, or faith like a child, or to make an entire CD attributed to Anne Frank (or the Sea). 

(this is the paragraph that accompanies my artistic piece, just fyi)