Dusty discussed Saussure’s idea that all signifiers are part of the same order, and all signifieds are part of the same order, but the pairing of signifier and signified is completely accidental. This brings to mind “The Idea of Order at Key West”, and that “The water never formed to mind or voice.” It seems the water is neither a signified—mind—nor a signifier—voice. The speaker is so enthralled with the woman that, although he acknowledges the sea, he does not bother to attach meaning to it or to give much more thought to it other than the fact that it is in all ways inferior to the woman. The sea is “merely a place by which she walked to sing,” and therefore it is not an entity itself—it is more like the scenery than a subject or even an object.
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