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Clarel is so fucking good bros. I just started reading it and I was floored by Canto 17 (Nathan). I don't think it reaches the poetic heights of Moby Dick yet but the way it portrays its characters is Melville at his best.

" With these be hearts in each degree
Of craze, whereto some creed is key;
Which, mastered by the awful myth,
Find here, on native soil, the pith;
And leaving a shrewd world behind--
To trances open-eyed resigned--
As visionaries of the Word
Walk like somnambulists abroad. "

>> No.19530094

>>19530080
how easy is it for an ESL? i dont feel like looking at dictionaries every now and then

>> No.19530103

>>19530094
retard

>> No.19530106

>>19530080
I dont get poetry. I read each of those lines and it means nothing to me

>> No.19530112

>>19530106
ok retard

>> No.19530118

>>19530106
It might not make full sense without the context, here's the canto where I took it from: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Clarel/Part_1/Canto_21

>> No.19530122

>>19530112
Well he starts with


"With these be hearts in each degree"

Literally means nothing just a set of random words

>> No.19530128

>>19530103
u ok

>> No.19530155

>>19530106
>>19530122
You're stupid my man. The first clause very simply says "many kinds of people" and the stanza as a whole simply describes these people going on a mystical journey.

>> No.19530166

>>19530128
kys

>> No.19530170
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19530170

>>19530118
I like it.

>> No.19530185

>>19530155
"With these be hearts in each degree" means nothing, sorry bro.