The Hum Drum Beat

You appear to be labouring an invalid point and missing mine. The Doldrums is an area where winds do not blow. Winds want to blow, if they can't blow then they aren't winds. Blowing is a wind's raison d'etre. Therefore the fact that they are not blowing frustrates them; hence they seethe because they are repressed. The sea is sluggish, but the sea is not the doldrums. The galley is in the doldrums which is an area where the winds do not blow...

Now please stop waffling.

Even more oxymoronic, Hawk. The wind exists or it does not exist. It has to be blowing to exist. Non-wind cannot seethe. You are saying that a repressed non-entity is seething. IMPOSSIBLE. You are better off, as I said before, utilizing the effects on the water in the doldrums. Your rowing movements are repressed by the slow currents. Your life is essentially in the doldrums when your lethargic mindset, activities are not proactively altering your course. The analogy is perfect if you express it properly.

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Originally Posted by virtuoso

Even more oxymoronic, Hawk. The wind exists or it does not exist. It has to be blowing to exist. Non-wind cannot seethe. You are saying that a repressed non-entity is seething. IMPOSSIBLE.

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Are you saying that a poet can't believe in imagined things? The wind laughs through the trees at your suggestion.

The wind laughs because it is blows and makes a simulated sound (of laughter). You cannot personify a non-entity. Non-wind cannot have any feelings or attributes. Wind and blow are synonymous. One does not exist without the other. You have to use the personification attributes of the water. The water can be listless or it can be moving. Onto these properties you can apply personificating attributes.

I am pressing the point too far. You could maybe have a mythical, supernatural wind that is personified. The greek gods gave natural entities qualities, attributes that were outside the realm of reason and science. Bottom line, you have written a scintillating poem. One word will not take it down even a notch. I loved the whole concept of the redundancy of the doldrums. The doldrums are a state of existence, which resonates in the mind, and the physical sphere. You have brilliantly brought out these points.