Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, journalist, and short-story writer. He coined the term “iceberg theory” and is remembered for his novels The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and others. His writing is well-loved and is studied in schools around the world. He also wrote a few pieces of poetry.
‘Oily Weather’ demonstrates Hemingway’s modernist style and skill with imagery in nine short lines about lust, desire, and age.
The sea desires deep hulls—
It swells and rolls.
The screw churns a throb—
Driving, throbbing, progressing.
‘Ultimately’ by Ernest Hemingway depicts a man that goes from being unable to utter the truth with a dry mouth to drooling uncontrollably.
He tried to spit out the truth;
Dry mouthed at first,
He drooled and slobbed in the end;
Truth dribbling his chin.
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