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By Stevie Smith. Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought. And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking. And now he’s dead. It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said.
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Not Waving but Drowning" is a poem by the British poet Stevie Smith. It was published in 1957, as part of a collection of the same title. The most famous of Smith's poems, it gives an account of a drowned man, whose distant movements in the water had been mistaken for waving.
Stevie Smith. 1902 –. 1971. Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought. And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking. And now he’s dead.
Learn More. "Not Waving but Drowning" is the most famous poem by British poet Stevie Smith, and was first published in 1957. The poem describes a drowning man whose frantic arm gestures are mistaken for waving by distant onlookers.
Summary. ‘ Not Waving But Drowning ’ by Stevie Smith describes the emotional situation of a speaker whose true tribulations go unnoticed by all those around her. The poem begins with the speaker stating that there is a dead man who is not really dead. He is not dead in that his story has more to offer to the world.
Speaking of “serious,” “Not Waving but Drowning” is Smith’s most famous poem. This twelve-line punch to the gut is one of her most sober and plainly nihilistic pieces. The poem begins after the central drama has already taken place. We join a crowd that has gathered at the site of an accidental drowning.
