This poem is probably the easiest to picture the events of the poetic narrative for students. The poem tells the story of a ferry leaving a North Shore jetty on a windy night and its arrival at Circular Quay. Gray uses graphic imagery to create the journey of the Ferry crossing the harbour. Gray contrasts the yachts safety anchored and secure in the tomato stake rows, while the late ferry must venture into the night and dark harbour.
As the ferry begins to travel throughout the night the power light becomes an active symbolic elements throughout the poem. Light is used to find a way through the darkness but in regards to the imagery of the cities it is linked with 'chromosomes' which convey a sense of movement, density and new life. Life is a powerful force portraying the physical discovery of one's way out of the turmoil of lostness, but also the personal discovery of new life.
As the ferry begins to travel throughout the night the power light becomes an active symbolic elements throughout the poem. Light is used to find a way through the darkness but in regards to the imagery of the cities it is linked with 'chromosomes' which convey a sense of movement, density and new life. Life is a powerful force portraying the physical discovery of one's way out of the turmoil of lostness, but also the personal discovery of new life.