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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy's 'Sea Fever'

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Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (b 1936) also known as A.S Byatt is a British author, she writes poems, novels, and short stories. A. S. Byatt is a postmodernist writer and one of her most popular short stories is ' 'sea story ' ', were A.S Byatt have nature as the focus. Harold is the main character in the short story ' 'Sea Story ' '. We meet Harold quickly in the short story. At the begging, we are told he is born in a fishing town called Filey on the East Yorkshire coast. He has a father who is an oceanographer, and a mother who is an English teacher and a poet. Harold has grown up beside the sea. The sea is something special for him and he loved it from the heart, but he decides to study literarily at Oxford. In his days at Oxford he realizes, he feels connected to his hometown and belong there. When Harold is back in Filey, he meets a girl …show more content…

Harold gets inspired to study poetry about nature, and choose to study literarily at Oxford, and in the split of that, he has not the real understanding of nature. Nature helps to define Harold and Laura. Harold was born and grew up in the sea, and therefore he has a special bond to the natural element. Harold 's poet describes the sea, and his attitudes and thinking are influenced by poetry. Even though the sea means a lot to him, he does not respect the nature. Harold falls in love with Laura and he thinks she reminds him of the sea "slim black wet suit like a seal" (l. 42) and "bright hair like a sea goddess" (127). and when Laura chooses to leave Filey, Harold sends a plastic bottle with a letter to her, and in that way, he polluting the nature. He realizes that what he has done to destroy the nature, and therefore he collects plastic and waste from the coaster. You can, therefore, say that Harold has learned to respect nature at the end of short

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