The Watch
Blacker stands the Mariner in fields of maize Knit with mar-line and stuffed with straw Watching the surge of the sea: Black gulls. Bloated squalls. Blue with eventide.
The poem seems to describe a scarecrow dressed as a mariner, standing in a field of maize. Its body is made of rope, which the poem calls "mar-line," and stuffed with straw. The title, "The Watch," fits: this figure is a guard, but instead of watching crows, it stares out at the sea.
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