Father Mapple
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Father Mapple is a fictional character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851). A former whaler, he has become a preacher in the New Bedford Whaleman's Chapel. Ishmael, the narrator of the novel, hears Mapple's sermon on the subject of Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale but did not turn against God.
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Father Mapple
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Father Mapple
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Male
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American
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Minister
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Oh, I was plungingref|Changes heighten the emotional quality and substitute a more vividly specific image.|group=lower-alpha to despair.
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"The ribsref|Substitution for "Death" makes natural the substitution in the next line.|group=lower-alpha and terrors in the whale,
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And left me deepening down to doomref|Added assonance and alliteration.|group=lower-alpha.
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"In black distress, I called my God,
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"My song for ever shall record
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"With speed he flew to my relief,
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"I saw the opening mawref|Substitution to sustain the whale imagery.|group=lower-alpha of hell,
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And give the glory to the Lord,
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And made my sinking soul afraid.
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As on a cherub's wings he rode:
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Awful and bright as lightning shone
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Archedref|Substitution for "Spread" prepared by the preceding substitution.|group=lower-alpha over me a dismal gloomref|Rhyme change enables alliteration and assonance of the stanza's final line.|group=lower-alpha,
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Due to his mercy and his pow'r.
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I give the glory to my Godref|Substitution for "Lord" loses the rhyme with "record."|group=lower-alpha,
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He bow'd his ear to my complaints;
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He bowed his ear to my complaints--
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Spread over me their dismal shade;
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That terrible, that joyful hour;
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The face of my Deliverer God.
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The face of my deliv'rer, God.
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Then did his grace appear divine.
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When I could scarce believe him mine,
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When I could scarce believe him mine;
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Which none but they that feel can tell--
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Which none but they that feel, can tell;
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While I was hurried to despair.
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While all God's sun-lit waves rolled by,
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While floods of high temptations rose,
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With endless pains and sorrows there,
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With endless pains and sorrows there;
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As on a radiant dolphinref|Ingenious substitution for "a cherub's wings."|group=lower-alpha borneref|Eliminates the partial rhyme of "rode" while establishing another partial rhyme with "shone."|group=lower-alpha;
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Awful, yetref|Substitution for "and," necessary because of the change in meaning of "awful" from the older "filling with awe" to the more modern sense of "terrible" that Melville usually gives it.|group=lower-alpha bright, as lightning shone
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No more the whale did me confineref|Keeping the rhyme in a most skilful revision.|group=lower-alpha.
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His all theref|Revision to get rid of the awkward trochaic foot.|group=lower-alpha mercy and the power."
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—The hymn in "The Sermon" with David Battenfeld's commentary on the changes from the source.
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— Psalm 18:2-5 & 8, in The Psalms and Hymns... of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America
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Father Mapple is a fictional character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851). A former whaler, he has become a preacher in the New Bedford Whaleman's Chapel. Ishmael, the narrator of the novel, hears Mapple's sermon on the subject of Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale but did not turn against God. The sermon presents themes which concerned Melville and run through the rest of the novel. Father Mapple believes, as Captain Ahab does, that truth is clear to see, and that human beings must pursue it in spite of all obstacles. Ishmael, on the other hand, finds that truth has many forms and is difficult to see or understand.
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