...kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded...fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullep white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea...

...frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upward, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, whiclv.Uke,Satan, Vould not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her,...

...hopeful portent: The sky-hawk is nailed to the Pequod by Tashtego's hammer. The bird goes down with the ship which, "like Satan would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven with her, and helmeted herself with it." Joseph Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces notes that...

...a relic of heaven with her: "And so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with the ship, which, like Satan would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along...

...kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded...dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmetcd herself with it. Epilogue 'And I only am escaped alone to tell thee." Job. THE drama's done....

...kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird ot heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded...not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part ot heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. Epilogue "And I only am escaped alone to tell...

...depth-grasp, kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks . . . went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would...heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it" (469). In the years following Moby-Dick, Melville remained a student of mob action and a conservative...

...kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded...heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. (135:722-23) That meaning is inseparable from objects is not, however, what we think as we try to get...

...kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded...Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a livingpart of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it" (572, emphasis mine). Tashtego does...

...imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folding in the flag of Ahab, went down with the ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till...heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. Thus the "submerged savage" takes the doomed bird of heaven down into the center of the great naturalistic...