'Symbol of fruitfulness, symbol of barrenness Mother and destroyer, the calm and the storm!
Life and desire and dreams and death
Frank Collymore, Hymn to the Sea,
The address to the sea in the lines above is done by the use of
An apostrophe is a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses someone or something that is not present or is an abstract concept, often treating it as though it were a person. In the given lines, the speaker addresses the sea directly, referring to it as a "symbol of fruitfulness," "barrenness," "Mother," "destroyer," and other qualities. The sea is personified and spoken to as if it can hear and respond.
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