The Unicorn and the Loathly Lady : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The Unicorn and the Loathly Lady / Giles Watson's poetry and prose
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| 説明 | The Unicorn and the Loathly LadyHonour is harder for the fairTo maintain - though to meIt always seemed strangeTo set such store by a thinMembrane - and yet it drawsMe like a lodestone:Virginity bids me leanMy head upon her lapAnd think of nothing.This one is loathsomeIn her aspect: I amThe only fair thing To have lain betweenThose legs, and I scornHer taste in millinery.No doubt such lackOf panache is whyShe’s still intact: and soMy cloven tracksLead here, and thenLeave off. His spearBrings out bloodAnd water: a brutalKnight and his uglyVirgin daughter.Poem by Giles Watson, 2011. This fifteenth century misericord from the parish church in Stratford-upon-Avon shows a scene commonly described in the mediaeval bestiaries: a unicorn, which is too fleet of foot to be trapped or killed by more honest means, is attracted to the lap of a virgin, where it sits mesmerised until it is killed by a knight, who transfixes it with a spear. The bestiaries go on to compare the killing of the unicorn with the death of Christ. Given that this carving is just across the choir from Shakespeare’s grave, it seemed appropriate to allude to Hamlet’s words to Ophelia in the “play scene”.For another poem on the later development of the lore of the unicorn, see:www.flickr.com/photos/29320962@N07/5528255287/ |
| 撮影日 | 2003-01-22 21:04:00 |
| 撮影者 | Giles Watson's poetry and prose , Oxfordshire, England |
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| カメラ | FinePix S5000 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.017 sec (1/60) |
| 開放F値 | f/2.8 |