without fear of its horn getting stuck in any branches or vines, because there are no trees for branches or vines to hang from. But the rhinoceros is also frustrated that it has been standing still for so long when it could have been running, and sad about the forest being cut down. ...
Let’s begin with Coleridge’s great poem of marine disaster. It can easily be seen as a fable of modern environmentalism, and I think Melville took it that way. For no good reason whatsoever the Ancient Mariner shoots the Albatross, the bird “hailed in God’s name” and fed by t...