Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
first-person speaker who begins to identify with a larger "we" as the poem progresses
Form and Meter
ten stanzas of free-verse poetry
Metaphors and Similes
The poem as a whole can be viewed as a metaphorical conceit, in which diving into the wreck is a metaphor for looking deeply into the past in order to create new narratives and new poems.
The simile "I crawl like an insect" compares the speaker to an insect, emphasizing her smallness and sense of alienation from her everyday experience in the face of the vast ocean.
Alliteration and Assonance
alliteration: "body-armor of black rubber," "it pumps my blood with power," "carrying a knife, a camera"
Irony
Genre
lyric poem
Setting
at the site of a sea wreck
Tone
determined, steadfast
Protagonist and Antagonist
Major Conflict
Climax
Foreshadowing
Understatement
Allusions
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Personification
The poem briefly personifies the wreck, imagining that its "flank" is illuminated by a flashlight, and imagining its "drowned face always staring / toward the sun."