The positions of what were compared to the painting " The Starry Night " in 1985 ?
As to the leading " literary " theories : those about The Bible range from van Gogh painting a passage out of Genesis 37 describing a dream of Joseph to an apocalyptic depiction out of the twelfth book of Revelation to a " sublimated Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane " ; while those from Whitman attempt to correlate the painting 's poetic vision within Song of Myself ; and ( what has been mistakenly attributed to Hugo 's Les Miserables ) as an inspired depiction of God as " a lighthouse in eclipse .