Lines 55–56 of “The Seafarer,” the speaker says, “Who could understand, / In ignorant ease, what we others suffer.” Based on evidence from the poem, what do the seafarer and people like him endure? Write one to two paragraphs in which you show that you understand what these seamen experience and why they go through such trouble. Be sure to use reasons and examples from “The Seafarer” to support your opinions.

The difference between point of view and choice of person in a story is that "person" is the literary name given to main characters in a story, and "point of view" is the perspective from which we view the story "person" is part of a term used to describe the type of narrator (as in first-person or third-person); "point of view" is how the antagonist understands the events of a story the terms are interchangeable; there is really no difference between them "point of view" refers to the perspective from which the story is told; "person" is part of a term used to describe a type of narrator (as in first-person or third-person)