Dead Hearts This essay is going to discuss the symbolic meanings of a poem written in both first and third person. The poem being discussed" NOT WAVING BUT DRWONING", was written by steve Smith. In the poem, symbolic meanings are being used to describe the lack of emotions or state of depression. This state is being written in both written in both first and third person, illustrating the misinterpretation of his emotion. In the poem …showed first 75 words of 337 total…

…showed last 75 words of 337 total…The dead man say he's been depressed all his life, and was fine; however, when he was misinterpreted by his friends, It was to much for him " it got to cold " and he felt completely dead. The poem appears to be written about a man in a depressed state all his life. The man also take a worse turn when his friends misinterpreted his feelings, which finally killed him, where as "It was cold always".