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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...BEN BOLT by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH THE BUNCH OF GRAPES by GEORGE HERBERT SONNET UPON HISTORIE OF GEORGE CASTRIOT, ALIAS SCANDERBERG by EDMUND SPENSER IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 78 by ALFRED TENNYSON TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS VORTICIST POEM ON LOVE by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |
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