Close Around A Pearl

Don’t Care About You

Exist Before Interpretation

Exist To Be Crossed

Float Like An Iceberg

Freeze You Quiet

Make The World Feel Larger

Outlast Civilization

Punish Assumptions

Punish Familiarity

Punish Overconfidence

Run Deep

Sing From The Deep

Sting Without Warning

ocean

dad joke

seesaw

butt

octopus

wave

waving

hair

newspaper

Christmas

tide

long distance

breaking up

greeting

shallowness

pond

depth

trivia

Cool Comparisons

climate change

global warming

Antarctica

freshwater

gold

mile

salt

volcano

geology

geography

ology (the study of)

shark

swimming

space

space exploration

exploration

NASA

fish

perspective

salt water

anthropocentrism

Little Mermaid

moon

wolf

The ocean is a mighty harmonist. William Wordsworth

is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.' Vera Nazarian

is a psychical territory, a complex, conglomerate symbol suggesting at once the immensity of infinity and the mystery of creation the unplumbed depths of the universe and the human heart.

For [Poe and Melville], as for Byron and Coleridge, the ocean is a psychical territory, a complex, conglomerate symbol suggesting at once the immensity of infinity and the mystery of creation the unplumbed depths of the universe and the human heart.

is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences. Henry David Thoreau

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

is female, the amniotic womb out of which we crawl. The planet, being older, is then an older fountain of a different sort.

Jeffers develops a variety of images of nature in his poety, some of which remain gender free, others of which employ both female and male sex-typing. In the early poem, 'Continent's End,' he defines the ocean as female and the planet as something preceding both ocean and humanity. In evolutionary terms and in the amniotic metaphor, when Jeffers writes that 'we crawled out of the womb,' one sees the viability of the 'mother' imaging of the ocean. But more importantly, Jeffers concludes, 'Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountan' (1:17). Jeffers avoids limiting this earlier entity's existence by means of a false poetic sex-typing, which helps emphasize the godhead he wishes to imply through an animism that attempts to avoid anthropomorphic deification.

is, in ecocritical scholarship, perpetuated as a void.

I argue that the use of 'the land' as a conceptual foundation for ecocritical scholarship perpetuates a cosmogony that defines the ocean as a void. Chapter 2, 'Consider the Crab,' examines how Shakespeare both exploited and resisted the . . .

is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of time.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.' H. P. Lovecraft

ocean, n.All

ocean