Not Waving but Drowning Theme of Death. You'd think that there couldn't be a clearer distinction than the one between life and death, but "Not Waving but Drowning" goes out of its way to muddy the water, so to speak. The focus, after all, is a talking corpse who just won't shut up even though the living can't hear him.
Coordinating conjunctions bring two clauses (subject + verb + object) together. When joining two ideas, the comma is used.
Brutus claims to be an honorable man, but he stabbed Caesar.
Contrast conjunctions introduce a contradiction with what is said before (Brutus is honorable or honest, but he is a killer).
Answer:
I want to say that it mean many things: Though she loves to use her voice, she feels insecure to. I think this because, as she goes on, she tells the readers about her teeth gap, and how she loved her voice, and how others loved it too. Maybe then she feels restricted from living the lives of others, but it would feel more normal to not have a gap in her teeth than speak.
I hope this helps!
