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Month: July 2016

The Voyage of Life
History Lecture | Lectures

The Voyage of Life

ByHouston Maritime July 12January 31

The sea voyage is one of the earliest metaphors about the meaning of life. This lecture looks at how that metaphor works. First, we examine a short poem by Walt Whitman that seems to be about a merchant vessel. Next, we examine the story told in four nineteenth-century oil paintings by Thomas Cole, the Dean of the so-called Hudson River School of artists.

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