My Galley

A Galley is a ship or boat usually propelled by oars. We have discussed that the ocean is usally portraited as someone's life. Well this journey the galley is on, must the the author's life journey. Through the rocks, tough times, and over sharp waves, getting over the obsticles in lifes path. But The "Lord" has steered his path, according to him, and he seems upset at the way it has turned out. He even seems to be accusing the "Lord" to be "mine enemy". "endless wind doth tear the sail apace" He is the ship, so the wind, life, is tearing him apart. He uses human emotions in speaking of the conditions at sea, letting us know that he is talking about himself, the "rain of tears, a cloud of dark disdain". He is torn with "error and eke with ignorance", he made bad choices and lead him to bad situations, and he has abandoned all "reason" that maybe he should join. He ends the poem being mad at the world "despairing of the port".