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10:22 AM

Q: What does the ocean symbolise in regards to literature?

I love the ocean, but I was wondering what does "the ocean" itself symbolise in regards to both psychology and literature? When I look up the ocean on Symbolism Wiki it comes up blank (no results)

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Tsundoku

10:42 AM

@Bookworm I think this is too broad. See also an earlier chat discussion about symbols and symbolism that began on 18 August 2021.

Aug 18, 2021 at 14:48, by Tsundoku

Moreover, the fact that X was a symbol for Y in some past culture does not automatically mean that it has that same meaning in 20th-century book Z, written at a time when that symbolic meaning might have been forgotten.

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Tsundoku

2:05 PM

@Bookworm Already deleted by the OP.

I actually should have written 'There is no such thing as "X always symbolises Y", for every X that might possibly be a symbol.'

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Bookworm

4:42 PM

Q: Goethe Quotation?

I'm annotating an essay by Paul Hensel and he quotes Goethe: "talent is formed in solitude, character in the currents and cataracts of the world." I can't seem to find what the source of this quote is. Any help would be appreciated.