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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HERMAN MELVILLE, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was always surrounded by the sea of his elders Last Line: And the abomination of the whiteness. %it is the great book. It is the blue proteus | |||
The pilot of the Antarctic Wrote at the end of his life A long letter to a friend. He who had been the hunted, the exile, the fugitive, Was now happy, surrounded by books. I think of him as I read, Of his ambiguous seas, Of the whale and the island That were his fate, And of his house in the dust of Illinois With the books and the old weapons. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 5 by EZRA POUND ODE TO A HUMAN HEART by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS by GEORGE GORDON BYRON ODE TO TRANQUILLITY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE TO THE AUTHOR OF 'THE ROBBERS' (SCHILLER) by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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