Judith Viorst

In history class, I wrote a poem, 'The Royalists and the Roundheads.' I would write poems about driftwood in art class and little stories about the sun, moon, and stars in science class. Since not many kids were writing in class, I got away with it.

American Author

Simon Schama

Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.

British Historian

Driftwood comes from trees and is shaped by water, making each piece unique.

Natural Origin

Driftwood is often associated with beach or coastal environments and has a weathered appearance.

Environmentally Charged

Driftwood is a symbol of travel and transformation, having journeyed through bodies of water.

Symbol of Journey

Metaphorically, being like driftwood suggests a lack of agency or control over one's life.

Existential Symbol

The comparison to driftwood can evoke feelings of loneliness or aimlessness in literature or speech.

Emotionally Resonant

Using 'driftwood' to describe someone implies they are at the mercy of external forces.

Lack of Control

 Barnes is learning the hard way how not to haul giant driftwood logs didn't quite go as planned I didn't even budge that log because of where that log is with all the debris and all the big boulders and everything it's just not gonna slide out of here

Log Jam PIPE Dead End...

 nothing consoles me. My mind floats like driftwood, wayward and wild. Ah, listen, dear heart.