Question

What does the poet mean by using the word 'mountain' for the whale? What does the poet want to convey?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Addressing the whale,the speaker in the poem says he can hear the grieving for itself while weeping for others of its kind because we,human being have killed them . Sadly,we have killed them to make beauty products to satisfy our vanity. The high notes of the whale sounds like a dirge for dead whales. The poet feels that soon we'll be silencing this whale too in our bid to make lipsticks and shoe polish rather than preserve a life