Harpoon at a Venture by Gavin Maxwell

Author:Gavin Maxwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857907042
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: 2013-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

When first I read that I drew from it a great deal of comfort, until I reached the last lines of the same poem, so completely giving it the lie and replacing comfort with the undisciplined squads of emotion:

Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.

Surprisingly great sea imagery occurs sometimes in works of a very much lighter character:

Perched on my city-office stool I watched with envy while a cool And lucky carter handled ice … And I was wandering in a trice Far from the gray and grimy heat Of that intolerable street O’er sapphire berg and emerald floe Beneath the still, cold ruby glow Of everlasting Polar night, Bewildered by the green half-light, Until I stumbled unawares Upon a creek where big white bears Plunged headlong down with flourished heels And floundered after shining seals Through shivering seas of blinding blue.

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