As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life Themes
Identity
Who are you? Are you the self that feels proud of your achievements and successes, or the self that sometimes thinks those achievements are just silly, or not good enough? Are you the self that exi...
Memory and the Past
Sometimes it's hard to revisit the past. While it might be nice to revisit old haunts and memories, sometimes being older means that you don't feel like the person you used to be. For the speaker o...
Man and the Natural World
Nature plays a big part in "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life." At the beginning, the speaker finds himself on a shoreline, staring into the sea and then into the fields that border it. Both these...