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 »
There was an old man with a beard, who said, "It is just as I feared!--... Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was an old man from Peru Who dreamed he was eating his shoe;... He woke in a fright In the middle of the night And found it was perfectly true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"... But a coarse old man am I, I choose the second-best,... I forget it all awhile Upon a woman's breast." Day-break and a candle end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"A young man in the dark am I But a wild old man in the light... That can make a cat laugh, or Can touch by mother wit Things hid in their marrow bones From time long passed away...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Not to die on the straw at home, Those hands to close these eyes,... That is all I ask, my dear, From the old man in the skies." Day-break and a candle end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »