- collecting basin for area precipitation and a series of channels to conduct the water out of the area and toward the sea. - an interconnected group of streams. - collects water over a large area. - drains water toward the ocean.
A A A. Email. Poetry is dying. Actually, it's pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. Poetry is dying. Actually, it's pretty dead already for all intents and purposes and the rise of performance poetry slams is doing nothing to help matters. I know, I used to be a performance poet. The first poetry slam competition was held in Chicago in 1984.
Death is literally everywhere in The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls.. The poem takes place at twilight (the death of the day), a traveler is seen leaving the shore for the last time (he is dead by the end of the poem), and the speaker keeps telling us that, while the tide rises, it also falls (in a sense, it dies).