In a Barque of Bark
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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.
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