d," the land is associated with ground, and so he is saying that the people may be looking at the sea, but those fears are still on the land. Also, the word "ground," compared to sand and beach, sounds like a much harder surface. This symbolizes the hardships related to the land that the people are trying to forget.The word "may" is very crucial in line nine, for it is foreshadowing the word "But" at the beginning of line ten. By using "may" and not a stronger word like "does," Frost is saying that altough the people know the land has more features to look at, they are trying not to look at the land. The land is associated with their fears and problems, and that's what they don't want to think about. In line ten, the word "wherever" is showing that it isn't clear and doesn't really matter where the truth is, because that's not what the people want to remember. This is why line ten is ended with a dash. The dash is disregarding the idea of line ten, which compares to how the people are disregarding their problems. Then, at line eleven, another wave crashes onto the shore, and the people look out to the sea. This stanza as a whole is saying that the people are almost thinking about those problems and fears, but a wave comes ashore and washes those thoughts away. What it may also be saying is that even if the land has more features to look at, the people enjoy looking at the sea much more. The crash of the waves is very soothing to them.Line thirteen and fourteen are actually opposing the entirety of the poem. By putting both of these lines in two complete sentences, Frost has given them their full meaning; but those meanings are quite similar. Line thirteen suggests that the people really can't look out at the sea far from their fears, and line fourteen suggests that they can't look very far into the waters of the sea to go to a different place away from their fears. These two lines also say that these people cannot, or they...
