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12 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
Summary of first set of lines
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Pyramus - handomse youth
Thisbe - fair maiden Lived in adjoining houses, brought together by love. There was a crack in the wall that had not been discovered until the lovers came by |
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Important Quote Set 1
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What is it that love does not discover
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Speaking to the WAll
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Line 71-73 Why do you hinder the lovers? Could you let our bodies meet, or allow us to kiss each other. We are not ungrateful (Litotes) Thankful for the passage for their voices
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Speaking to Each Other
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They murmur farewell and goodnight
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Their Plan
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They wanted to decieve the guards in the silence of night, vanish outside. Meet by the grave of ninus and hide in shelter of a tree. Tall mulberry treey with dense white berries boardering a fountain.
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Sneaking Out
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Thisbe opens the door, decieves the guards, settles under the tree. Love makes her brave, lion comes and scares her off. The fierce lioness stains the garmet of Thisbe while she flees to a dark cave
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Pyramus' Entrance
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Pyramus sees creatures tracks and is drained of color. He remarks that two lovers will be lost- argues that she deserved the long life more than he did. He says that he has claimed her life and that it is his fault. Carries the veil of Thisbe with him, cries on it.
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Death of Pyramus
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He drives the sword into his groinm pulls it warm from the woumb. A blood spurts out as from a pipe. The fruit of the white tree is now blood red, sprinkeled with Thisbe's blood. Spurting represents sexual orgasm.
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Death of Thisbe
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Thisbe returns and calls for her lover. Sees the tree and the color of the berries puzzle her. She sees the bloodstained earth and start back, terrified, like the sea, that trembles when the slightest breeze touches the surface, her face whiter than boxwood
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LINE 55
iuvenum pulcherrimus, alter / altera |
CHIASMUS
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LINE 57
ubi...urbem |
epic periphrasis
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Line 60
Taedae...iure |
the bond of marriage, METONYMY
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