SURVIVING THE STORM – DAVID PAIRPOINT
In supporting the RNLI in their fund
raising efforts I came across David Pairpoint’s painting ‘Surviving
the Storm’.
Since then I’ve been considering ways
in which the sea, through the arts, captures the imagination.
I wouldn’t begin to describe myself
as comfortable being ‘at sea’; more a case of being ‘all at
sea’, given my manic lifestyle.
Apart from having once spent six months
at sea enjoying the relative comfort of several RFAs, and a
disastrous cruise on board Concordia, just weeks before it sank, I’ve
not been much of a one for wet, windy weather. I can’t swim either;
too afraid to be in water where my feet can’t touch the bottom.
I can therefore only begin to imagine
the terror of those fearing for their lives, and the sheer ……
bravery of those who willingly, and often without pay, risk their own
lives in order to save others.
As a regular church goer I am familiar
with the refrain of the hymn ‘Eternal father strong to save’,
The sea has often provided fuel subject
matter for some of our most noted poets over the centuries –
Over
the Sea our Galleys Went by Robert Browning
A
Sea Dirge by Lewis Carroll
The
Sea And The Skylark by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The
Sea Took Pity by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The
Sea And the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
The Old Man and the Sea
is a novel
written by the American author Ernest
Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba,
and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be
produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most
famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman
who struggles with a giant marlin
far out in the Gulf
Stream.The Old Man and the Sea was
awarded the Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by
the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel
Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
Turner exhibited his first oil
painting at the academy in 1796, Fishermen
at Sea: a nocturnal moonlit scene of The
Needles, which lie off the Isle
of Wight. The image of boats in peril
contrasts the cold light of the moon with the firelight glow of the
fishermen's lantern.
The fighting temeraire
The power of the aea to capture
the imagination
Films about the sea
Hornblower
fascination with the changing
landscape of the sea
He will again have compassion on us; he
will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into
the depths of the sea.
Who builds his upper chambers in the
heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters
of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth— the
Lord is his name.
Some went down to the sea in ships,
doing business on the great waters; they saw the deeds of the Lord,
his wondrous works in the deep. For he commanded and raised the
stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.
The wind blows to the south and goes
around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its
circuits the wind returns. All streams run to the sea, but the sea is
not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.
If I take the wings of the morning and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall
lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
And God said, “Let the waters under
the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land
appear.” And it was so.
The birds of the heavens, and the fish
of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
He has inscribed a circle on the face
of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
When he established the heavens, I was
there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my
God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty,
covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the
heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters;
he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind;
he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire. He set
the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. ...
Blessed is the man who walks not in the
counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in
the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and
on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by
streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf
does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not
so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the
wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the
congregation of the righteous; ...
The earth was without form and void,
and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was
hovering over the face of the waters.
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which
God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take
place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who
bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ,
even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words
of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what
is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches
that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was
and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his
throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of
the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and
has freed us from our sins by his blood ...
Then God said, “Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the
livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth.”
God called the dry land Earth, and the
waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that
it was good.
On that day living waters shall flow
out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them
to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in wint
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