There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are a...ll sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man in the wilderness said to me, How many strawberries grow in the sea?... I answered him as I thought good, As many red herrings as grow in the wood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no m...ore, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a ser...pent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By this also ye must know that women have dominion over you: do ye not labour and toil, and give and bring all to the woman? Yea, ...a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers, and looketh upon a lion, and goeth in the darkness; and when he hath stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bringeth it to his love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bid her paint till day of doom, To this favour she must come.... Bid the merchant gather wealth, The usurer exact by stealth, The proud man beat it from his thought, Yet to this shape all must be brought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lapse of ages changes all things--time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "abo...ut, around, and underneath" man, except man himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »