The_Chivalry_Of_The_Sea

The Chivalry Of The Sea Robert Seymour Bridges was a physician and British Poet Laureate who wrote many of his works in the early twentieth century. In his poem titled The Chivalry of the Sea, Bridges reflects on Britain’s naval participation in World War I focusing particularly on the bravery of Britain’s young men as the bravery of the nation. Looking to the bleak landscape into which Britain sailed as well as the warm home that was left, Bridges memorializes his countrymen while eulogizing his nation. It is a patriotic work that is at once as personal as it is national. The poem is composed of 20 lines, the first five separated from the following lines by a space. Those first five lines could even serve as a poem by themselves, but together with the rest of Chivalry, they serve two capacities. The first is to act as an introduction to the rest of the poem. The second is to praise the bravery of the nation of Great Britain. When held next to the remaining 15 lines, this first stanza takes on a new character; without explicitly stating it, the stanzas together show that the chivalry bridges, poem, line, first, nation, world, war, lines, chivalry, skies, men, britain, waters, stanza, sea, last, greatness, great, country, bravery, while, two, together, seymour, people, ones, ocean, lost, landscape, five, every, even, britain’s, bridges’, young