Grade XII | English FULL FATHOM FIVE THY FATHER LIES William Shakespeare Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies occurs in Shakespeare’s well-known play The Tempest. It is sung to Ferninand by the spirit Ariel. Ferdinand is a prince of Neples. He mistakenly thinks that his father is drowned. The poem is important for its delightful music. In a way it is about the production of music through different sounds. Ferdinand’s father lies thirty feet below surface of the sea. His bones have been turned into pearls. Everything undergoes a sea-change and turns into something rich and strange. The sea nymphs ring his death knell every hour. One can hear the sound Ding-dong. In fact the poem is about death. Death is meaningful in the sense that it transforms the body into something rich and strange. It is a platform into a higher, ideal world of art and spirit. Thus death is not dreadful. Rather it is an entrance into the world of eternity and perpetual happiness. After all death is an end of physical existence but this end assumes a new significance in that it is an entrance into the spiritual world of art. ~Shakya
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 01:59:04 +0000
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