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The Sea is My Brother is a story of friendship, brotherhood, and the relationship between man and sea. Wesley Martin, an accomplished sailor meets Bill Everhart, a Columbia University graduate turned professor. Martin is broke and washed up after squandering his money whilst on leave.
The Sea Is My Brother is a novel by the American author Jack Kerouac, published in 2011. The novel was written in 1942 and remained unpublished throughout Kerouac's lifetime due to his dissatisfaction with it. The plot and its characters are based on Kerouac's experience in United States Merchant Marine during World War II.
- Jack Kerouac, Dawn Ward
- 2011
Summary ‘Captain Cook (To My Brother)’ by Letitia Elizabeth Landon reflects on childhood and the brief beauty of dreams and imagination. The poem describes a time when the speaker and her brother were engaged in Captain Cook’s stories and all of his adventures.
- Female
- October 9, 1995
- Poetry Analyst And Editor
In 1947, enthused by bebop, the rebel attitude of his friend Neal Cassady, and the throng of hobos, drug addicts and hustlers he encountered in New York, he decided to discover America and hitchhike across the country.
The alliteration of 'before the breeze' echoes the movements of a ship on the sea; the speaker imagined her and her brother joining Captain Cook on his mystical adventures and yearned for this.
Nov 24, 2011 · The Sea Is My Brother is Jack Kerouac’s first novel, and serves as a foundation for his signature style and experiential approach to writing. As Kerouac himself wrote, “I want to study more of the earth, not out of books, but from direct experience.”
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Jul 10, 2019 · Siegfried Sassoon, ‘To My Brother’. In November 1915, Sassoon’s younger brother Hamo was killed during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War, and in response, Sassoon wrote this touching poem about his brother’s death and Siegfried’s relationship with his sibling.
