-MIJ Language Arts 2 Advanced Q4 Part 6
Thinking about Meaning
What is the central idea of the poem? Choose the best
answer.
When I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me
To dig the sandy shore.
My holes were empty like a cup.
In every hole the sea came up
Till it could come no more.
"At the Sea-Side,"
Robert Louis Stevenson
The beach is a dangerous place.
Our work will all be washed away, but it is not a sad
thing.
The ocean is a mean and uncaring part of nature.
It is sad to think that every person's work will
eventually be washed away.