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- Sea in culture (Wikipedia)
- "As a symbol, the sea has for centuries played a role in literature, poetry and dreams.
Sometimes it is there just as a gentle background but often it introduces such themes as storm, shipwreck, battle, hardship, disaster, the dashing of hopes and death.[232]
In his epic poem the Odyssey, written in the 8th century BC,[233] Homer describes the ten-year voyage of the Greek hero Odysseus who struggles to return home across the sea's many hazards after the war described in the Iliad.[234]
The sea is a recurring theme in the Haiku poems of the Japanese Edo period poet Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉) (1644–1694).[235] In modern literature, sea-inspired novels have been written by Joseph Conrad — drawn from his experience at sea,[236] Herman Wouk,[237] and Herman Melville.[238]
In the works of psychiatrist Carl Jung, the sea symbolizes the personal and the collective unconscious in dream interpretation, the depths of the sea symbolizing the depths of the unconscious mind.[239]
Although the origin of life on Earth is still a matter of debate,[240] scientist and writer Rachel Carson, in her award-winning 1951 book The Sea Around Us, wrote, "It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself".[241]"
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