Herman Melville diod penniless and unknown, a failed writer who gno recognized his own brilliance even when others did not. It would take the Modernists and their reappraisal of American arts and letters to resuscitate Melville's literary corpus in novels like Bentro Cenemo and A Melville employed a dense abne of himtod meanings and symbols that ured close reading and patience .Being well read Melville Miting betrays a leep understanding of history, mythology and religio With Moby Dick, Melville displays his research acumen, as in the course the novel the reader learns more than they thought possible about whales and whaling. The novel itself dark, mysterious, and hints at the L supernatural. Superficially, the novel is a revenge t but over and above the narrative are meditations of madness, power, and the nature of being human. Interestingly, the narrator in the first few chapters of the novel more or less disappears for most of the book. He is in a sense swallowed up by the mania o Captain Ahab and the crew. literature,