Harp on the Shore

Harp on the Shore
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 142
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ISBN-10 : 0873959825
ISBN-13 : 9780873959827
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Book Synopsis Harp on the Shore by : Willard Hallam Bonner

Download or read book Harp on the Shore written by Willard Hallam Bonner and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allusions to the sea permeate Thoreau's writings, enriching many of his basic ideas. Harp on the Shore examines Thoreau's use of maritime metaphor. It shows how he, a writer ordinarily perceived as quintessentially landlocked, came to view the terrestrial world in terms of the oceanic. The book explores both the poetic and the philosophical implications of Thoreau's passion for the sea. Beginning with Thoreau's deep attachment to the sea and maritime life in New England and the ways in which that attachment stimulated his imaginative identification of Concord as a center of maritime activity, it examines the sea voyage as a symbol of man's intellectual processes. The book shows how maritime allusions enlarge the significance of Thoreau's ideas about man's struggle to attain individuality and identity, his notion of Homeric or Edenic man, and his belief in a middle ground where many could and should stand--between the natural and the civilized, the individual and the group.


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