The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Man and the Natural World Quotes

Man and whale are definitely not "BFF" here. The bones of the sailors who drowned aboard the Pequod are calling out for revenge against the whale. But it wasn't the whale's fault that they drowned, was it? It was Ahab's obsession that led them to their deaths. The men don't see that, though.

The sailors are blue, and we don't mean they are sad. They're drowned, and the speaker says that it's good that the Atlantic is "fouled" with them. Yikes. Their bodies are making the water less pure and more dirty.