- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- A Note on Sources
- Introduction
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1 An Eye for Trees - Against the Sky a Tree has Parts
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2 A Heart for Trees - Heartwood
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3 A Poet’s Trees - Woodplay
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4 A Mind for Trees - Forest Lessons
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5 A Soul for Trees - As High a Heaven
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6 My Emblem, The Pine - Paeans to the Pine
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7 Knighting Elms - Death of a Concord Kingpost
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8 A Kingdom of Primitive Oaks - Boxborough’s Ancient Oaks
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9 Transformed by Snow - A World Made New
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10 In a Barque of Bark - Sailing a Sea of Green
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- List of Thoreau Excerpts
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- Index
In a Barque of Bark
In a Barque of Bark
- Chapter:
- (p.188) (p.189) 10 In a Barque of Bark
- Source:
- Thoreau and the Language of Trees
- Author(s):
Richard Higgins
Richard Higgins
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
Thoreau loved the ocean and was more of an old salt than is known. But he lived in inland Concord. So he wrote of the forest, metaphorically, as a maritime main, a sea of green on which he sailed. He imagined trees as schooners and barques he navigated across the treetops. He called on ports as he sailed the woods of Concord. Thoreau’s extended nautical imagery of trees tapped into widespread love of the sea in American culture then, and linked his personal love of the ocean and his love of the woods.
Keywords: ocean, old salt, inland, metaphorically, maritime, sea, sea of green, sailed, sail, sailor, sailing, imagined, ship, ships, schooners, barques, navigated, treetops, nautical
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- A Note on Sources
- Introduction
-
1 An Eye for Trees - Against the Sky a Tree has Parts
-
2 A Heart for Trees - Heartwood
-
3 A Poet’s Trees - Woodplay
-
4 A Mind for Trees - Forest Lessons
-
5 A Soul for Trees - As High a Heaven
-
6 My Emblem, The Pine - Paeans to the Pine
-
7 Knighting Elms - Death of a Concord Kingpost
-
8 A Kingdom of Primitive Oaks - Boxborough’s Ancient Oaks
-
9 Transformed by Snow - A World Made New
-
10 In a Barque of Bark - Sailing a Sea of Green
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- List of Thoreau Excerpts
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- Index