Analyze the poem "The Sea" by James Reeves.

James Reeves's poem "The Sea" uses an extendedto describe the sea as a dog.
In the first stanza, the choppy gray sea is characterized as a hungry dog with "clashing
teeth and shaggy jaws." The waves roll and gnaw like a dog on the stones they churn around.
The onomatopoeic moans mimic the sound of the sea, and the spray resembles the tongue of a dog
"Licking his greasy paws." The image of the greasy paws evokes the way the light makes
a film over the gray sea.

In the second stanza, the sea makes a different
sound, howling, as dogs do, at the moon and beating its spray against the cliffs, like a wet dog
shaking itself. The sense of turbulence and tumult is increased by the roaring of the night wind
and the motion of the moon, which "rocks in the stormy cloud." As in the first stanza,
the effect is to increase the animation of the sea by describing it as a living thing.

In the final stanza, however, the dog is asleep. It is a warm, quiet day in May or
June. The repetitive rhymes...