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...into a sudden squall. Then the ship's engines inexplicably quit, leaving it to drift in 60-m.p.h. gusts; the 30-man crew dropped two anchors but the anchor chains snapped. So the voyage covered only about 35 miles, ending against the rocks of the island of Ushant. There the tanker rests, sinking slowly as water seeps in through gashes torn in her hull by the rocks. Last week the Onassis group began final attempts to refloat the tanker; if they fail the ship will be declared a total loss...
...Aiken began publishing poems in 1914. Influenced by both Sigmund Freud and Harvard Philosopher George Santayana, Aiken searched in his poetry and prose for musical and psychological truth -an effort resulting in rich mental atmospheres but lacking in drama and force. Best known for his Selected Poems, for Ushant, a third-person autobiography, and for a number of short stories, notably Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Aiken published more than 50 books of poetry, fiction and essays during his 57-year literary career. His final poetic work, Thee, published in 1971, summarized his personal philosophy "that there are no final solutions...
...Aiken's mind, the trip stood as a symbol of both the expanding American frontier and the expanding American consciousness, moving from innocence to experience (a theme that preoccupied him in his fictionalized autobiography, Ushant). But story and symbol never meet, with the result that cascades of imagery and torrents of metaphor are expended on events that have all the inherent drama of a railroad timetable. The train pulls into the town of Galion, Ohio, and Blomberg is jolted awake: "Galion! They had come to Galion; this point in chaos and eternal night was Galion." To Blomberg, the trip...
...poet with an intricate set of symbols all his own. He has long been fascinated by ships, voyages, wandering and exile. No other major U.S. writer is more traditionally American than he-and yet no other gives a stronger feeling of being an explorer beyond his own land. In Ushant (TIME, Nov. 10, 1952), an indefinable sort of stream-of-consciousness auto biography, Aiken's American steered his way over the Atlantic towards a distant light, amid the crying of seagulls and the clanging of bells-and the same hand is at the helm of Mr. Arcularis. The result...
Love Affair with Britain. In skeleton form, Ushant is the story of a New Englander's love affair with Britain. As a boy, Aiken lay on the floor and was entranced by English poetry. He grew into a young man who fell "incurably, hopelessly and fatuously in love" with what he calls "Ariel's Island." But as he remained no less American at heart, his life became a tense, two-way stretch "of instability, restlessness and dissatisfaction." Aiken was "one minute the American correspondent for an English journal, the next the English correspondent for an American journal...