In the second stanza, Sexton drives from the funeral to the Cape to "cultivate" herself or deal with her grief. He describes the images he sees on the headland as the sun shining from the sky and uses a simile to describe the sea “swinging like an iron gate”. The scenario, unlike Sexton's emotions, is very lively and happy and the use of these images makes the reader understand that the world was still turning even though the speaker's life had just stopped due to his loss (Johnson 3). The end of the second stanza concludes with "in another country people die", which brings back the poem's theme of death and brings the poem back to a sadder tone by showing that it cannot escape death or its pain. In the third verse, Sexton addresses a loved one who is with her. Despite the wind that falls like stones from the “white-hearted water” or the pain that hits her, her loved one touches her and she realizes that, unlike the dead, she is not