Boat poems-- kind of

[eglantine_br]

I would argue that this is a poem. The words are chosen with great attention to how they sound and feel. There is no sloppy language here. Moby Dick is huge, and he could not get away with it now. It needs to be tightened, no doubt. but the first paragraph is just about perfect. You feel that you can trust Melville and Ishmael. You want to go where

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[kittycallum]

You are definitely not the only one to see the humour in that book! I've been reading it with my sister, and we've ended up in peals of laughter on many occasions. (Anything Stubb says, for example.) That first paragraph is so wonderful and real -- I never quite know what to think, it's just as though I've read my own thoughts on that drizzly novembrous mood.

I'll have to listen to that song when I have a chance.