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: The boy is disconnected from the human world, symbolized by the house where "Reynaldo Hahn" (French music) is played quietly. He cannot hear this "human culture" and remains focused on his "darkening game" with the tide.

: The sea is "hopelessly attached" to the boy, chasing him like a child might chase a father, which reverses the typical hierarchy of nature over man. Critical Perspective Analysis from Sam Reads Poetry window freda downie analysis

In the context of the poem’s accumulating alienation, the speaker’s decision to wave is heartbreaking and absurd. She attempts to bridge the gap, to convert the butcher’s woman from a flat cut-out into a fellow human. But the timing is wrong: “I wave. A bird dives from the top / Of the plane tree.” : The boy is disconnected from the human