The Arctic Queen
Unknown
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Description
This poem, dedicated to Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, commander of the Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, honours Kane's enterprise, courage, and heroic self-devotion, and his success as discoverer of the open polar sea. The poem itself personifies the Arctic as a queen. Oene, of all the chilly Arctics queen, ascends to an everlasting throne built on the steadfast centre of the world.
She waits for the middle hour of night, swiftly coming, to begin her reign of ice and darkness. Readers get a mid-nineteenth-century verse tribute to polar exploration, written when Franklin's fate still stirred the public mind. The poem's grandeur suits readers of exploration literature and of period poetry.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 94 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |