The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Death Quotes

Though he's asking who will make Ahab rise from the dead, he's already answered the question: no one. In the poem, you can't cheat death, or the sea. Both are final. Sorry, Ahab.

Here, the butchering of the whale is likened to the destruction of a sanctuary. When man kills a creature, he destroys something scared, says Lowell. Not good.