'sea of life enisled' - metaphor, we are the islands, life is all around us like water is
('enisled' - to become an island)
'watery wild' - alliteration -> waves and water
'millions live alone' - people are secluded and by themselves, emphasised by italics, juxtaposition -> ironic
'islands feel' - personification
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Stanza 2
'And' - repeated frequently ->endless list of positivilty
'balms of spring' - positive, harmonious theme, youth
'in their glens' - personification
'nightingales' - represents hope (perahps for people to reconnect)
'sounds' - links people together, connection
'channels pour -" - spiritual, divine meaning, interrupts the peace and makes the stanza disjointed
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Stanza 3
'Oh!' - caesura, shock -> image of despair, interjection, exclamatory
'longing' - desperate for connection of humanity
The emotional stanza
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Stanza 4
'longing's fire' - warmth, hope, passion
'A God, a God' - repetition emphasises his beliefs about God, pinning the blame on God, disagrees with his plan on separating humanity, religious views that God has separating him from other people
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