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Literatur: Melville
Literatur: Poetologische Lyrik
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LIST the harp in window wailing Stirred by fitful gales from sea: Shrieking up in mad crescendo – Dying down in plaintive key! Listen: less a strain ideal |
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Than Ariel's rendering of the Real. What that Real is, let hint A picture stamped in memory's mint. Braced well up, with beams aslant, Betwixt the continents sails the Phocion, |
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To Baltimore bound from Alicant. Blue breezy skies white fleeces fleck Over the chill blue white-capped ocean: From yard-arm comes – "Wreck ho, a wreck!" [80] Dismasted and adrift, |
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Longtime a thing forsaken; Overwashed by every wave Like the slumbering kraken; Heedless if the billow roar, Oblivious of the lull, |
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Leagues and leagues from shoal or shore, It swims – a levelled hull: Bulwarks gone – a shaven wreck, Nameless, and a grass-green deck. A lumberman: perchance, in hold |
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Prostrate pines with hemlocks rolled. It has drifted, waterlogged, Till by trailing weeds beclogged: Drifted, drifted, day by day, Pilotless on pathless way. |
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It has drifted till each plank Is oozy as the oyster-bank: Drifted, drifted, night by night, Craft that never shows a light; Nor ever, to prevent worse knell, |
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Tolls in fog the warning bell. [81] From collision never shrinking, Drive what may through darksome smother; Saturate, but never sinking, Fatal only to the other! |
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Deadlier than the sunken reef Since still the snare it shifteth, Torpid in dumb ambuscade Waylayingly it drifteth. O, the sailors – O, the sails! |
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O, the lost crews never heard of! Well the harp of Ariel wails Thoughts that tongue can tell no word of! |
Druckvorlage
Herman Melville: John Marr and Other Sailors:
An Online Electronic 'Facsimile' Text of the First Edition (1888).
Paul Royster (editor & depositor).
University of Nebraska - Lincoln University. 2005.
URL: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/18/
Erstdruck
Herman Melville: John Marr and Other Sailors.
New-York: De Vinne Press 1888, S. 79-81.
Literatur: Melville
Bidney, Martin: The Aeolian Harp Reconsidered:
Music of Unfulfilled Longing in Tjutchev, Mörike, Thoreau, and Others.
In: Comparative Literature Studies 22 (1985), S. 329-343.
URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40246572
Dejal, Juana Celia: Melville's Antithetical Muse.
Reading the Shorter Poems.
Valencia 2013.
Hayes, Kevin J.(Hrsg.): Herman Melville in Context.
Cambridge 2018.
Kelley, Wyn / Ohge, Christopher (Hrsg.): A New Companion to Herman Melville.
Malden, MA 2022.
Renker, Elizabeth: The "Genteel Tradition" and Its Discontents.
In: The Cambridge History of American Poetry.
Hrsg. von Alfred Bendixen u.a.
Cambridge 2015, S. 403-424.
Renker, Elizabeth: Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900.
Oxford 2018.
Riley, Peter: Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry.
Against Vocation.
Oxford 2019.
Edition
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