As the Indian Ocean has been in the news, with the Malaysian Airline plane missing, I thought of Melville's poem, the Maldives being situated in the Indian Ocean.
Showing posts with label Herman Melville. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Herman Melville. Show all posts
Friday, March 14, 2014
Monday, November 11, 2013
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Thursday, July 24, 2008
The Herman Melville Invitational Golf Tournament
The Herman Melville Invitational Golf Tournament
Hawthorne reached the 9th green in two, but lightning
struck him down as he walked up the fairway.
Edgar Allan Poe was buried alive in a sand-trap
on the 13th. Walt Whitman fell in love
with his caddy. Near the hazard on 15th,
there was an unusual set of divets
leading up the the water, and a harpoon
had been driven into the green.
Emily Dickinson carried the day,
("epic for show, lyric for dough"),
and Fred Douglass presented her
with the trophy. Henry David Thoreau
filed suit against the developers
who'd wiped out a perfectly good
marsh to carve the course.
Hans Ostrom
Copyright Hans Ostrom 2008
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)