ENG 304: Melville & Ellison

“I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle…

I think I loved the pop-up version of Moby Dick the most at the showcase of the Moby Dick and Ellison display of artwork and novel pieces. It was such…

Queequeg is one of my favorite characters so far, partly because of some of my friends who took this course and read moby dick told me stories of Queequeg, and…

I was fascinated by Jefferson’s retelling of his time in heaven. It felt nostalgic, like listening to my grandpa talk to me about his life and how hard he worked.…

I wanted to touch on the The Portent for a moment to discuss the positives of Melville’s poetry. Before I began reading the poetry for the book, I had my…

Throughout Typee, I encounter again and again this theme of a Utopian society that is the Typee village. Once Tommo is out of his state of depression, he starts to…