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Derek Mahon: Beached Whale

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Beached Whale

An Autumn Wind, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2010

Not included in CP (See also note below)

Allusion to Classical figure  Pliny

Relationship to Classical text  Mahon refers to Pliny the Elder's Natural History 9.8, in which he recounts a number of stories regarding interaction between dolphins and humans; "aspiring to human life" is poetic inference, however.

Note  Also collected in New Collected Poems, Gallery Press, 2011, p.346-347.

Derek Mahon