The Haunted Beach

Mary Robinson, The Haunted Beach, the use of the word green is repeated many times. When I think of green, I think of grass and nature. I think of life and photosynthesis, oxygen and living. On the contrary, the title of this poem is dealing with the beach, which is describing two different atmospheres. However, the two are tied in the one sentence that ends each stanza,
"Where the green billows play'd"
A billow is defined as a surging mass. While reading this poem, it was evident that a place we seem as daunting and strange was the home to a mariner. Life for him was what an outsider would consider different. Death in this poem is seen differently as to what we see now. Usually when a death occurs, it happens in an environment that we are comfortable. Meaning that this lonely and misleading atmosphere of the beach is not somewhere anyone would just go.
Overall, nature within itself can be destructive and as humans, there is a sense of fear that lies within each of us. There is a fear of water because we know there are many natural occurrences that can happen. Yet, depending on where we live in the world, we become accustomed to our natural environment. In society, we have been able to see the destruction caused all over the world by earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. The mass of the tide in this context, is seen to the outsiders as a fear for the mariner. It is the soul, describing who he is. This is his interaction between him and nature.