W. H. Auden the poet, stirred by the Anglo-Saxon imagination observed that 'the sea represents that state of barbaric vagueness and disorder out of which civilisation has emerged.' For Auden the sea represents the true condition of mankind, the setting for all great decisions and choices.
that poet of rain clouds and stormy seas tracing on canvas the gusts of turbulent light so fascinated by the sea that he had himself lashed to a mast so that his own breath and the breath of sea might mingle.
In a sense both Auden and Turner are laments bowed as they are before the immensity; as they strain to capture that natural sublimity of the sea.
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