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"Beach Burial" (1944) is a poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor. [ 1 ] It was originally published in Southerly journal in 1944, and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.
The story describes the narrator walking along the beach early one morning in the pre-dawn twilight, when he sees a man picking up a starfish off the sand and throwing it into the sea. The narrator is observant and subtle, but skeptical; he has seen many "collectors" on the beach, killing countless sea creatures for their shells. Some excerpts:
In the painting, the tide has gone out, revealing a flat expanse of sand, pools of water, rocks, and algae. Standing separately the foreground are Dyce's son with a spade looking out to sea, his wife, and her two sisters, collecting shells and fossils on the beach. The women are wrapped in shawls against the cool of the autumn evening.
Sea-shelling, usually shortened to “shelling,” is a hobby that consists of visiting a beach shoreline and collecting seashells. The goal with shelling is to find the “perfect” shell or to ...
OCEAN CITY, N.J. − Sue McElwee didn't realize she and her friends were about to start a holiday tradition in 2019 when they set up a Christmas tree on the beach. They just wanted a beautiful ...
Seashells washed up on the beach in Valencia, Spain; nearly all are single valves of bivalve mollusks, mostly of Mactra corallina Hand-picked molluscan seashells (bivalves and gastropods) from the beach at Clacton on Sea in England A group of seashells, mostly bivalves in the family Pholadidae Mixed shells on a beach in Venezuela Hermit crabs inhabiting marine gastropod shells that lived in ...
Whether you're heading home after the holidays or have festive plans to celebrate New Years Day, the busy holiday travel period continues, and weather may be a factor. For some, snow, rain ...
Gift from the Sea is a book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh first published in 1955.. While on vacation on Florida's Captiva Island in the early 1950s, Lindbergh wrote the essay-style work by taking shells on the beach for inspiration and reflecting on the lives of Americans, particularly American women, in the mid-20th century.