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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...MARTHA WASHINGTON by SIDNEY LANIER REAR-PORCHES OF AN APARTMENT-BUILDING by MAXWELL BODENHEIM THE CHINESE NIGHTINGALE; A SONG IN CHINESE TAPESTRIES by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY GREAT FRIEND by HENRY DAVID THOREAU SONG OF THE PILGRIMS [SEPTEMBER 16, 1620] by THOMAS COGSWELL UPHAM TWILIGHT AT SEA by AMELIA B. WELBY PAN'S PIPING by ALCAEUS OF MESSENE |
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