After Reading the Last Pages of Moby-Dick
From 1850s
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[edit] College English, Vol. 19, No. 6, Poetry and Professors Issue. (Mar., 1950), p241
[edit] By John Tagliabue
[edit] Summary
After reading the Last Pages of Moby-Dick is a poetic epilogue created by Professor John Tagliabue for College English's Poerty and Professors issue. The work is an example of unbiased praise for the work, as it was being studied in a modern collegiate setting.
[edit] The Poem
How calm and grave the world seems now that Ishmael is up again
And birds in the summer coolness sing. after the death of all
And Ahab pouring down like fire andocomet and King
In fury through the furled and unfurled watery grave
Spoke to the fish and Fedallah and climbing once more the foam
Spoke with the voice of the milder sea. Wonderer and wanderer
He broke the waves' Sun and his arm like an empire
Poured pearls into the caskets of death. Then the Sun
Once more came from the birds of the sea like a prophet, Son,
or Ishmael.
