Tereus

portrayed as having slain a prostitute in the tub because he had grown tired of her pestering. The title is an allusion because another word for nightingales is philomel, which derives from another greek story of Philomela. Philomela saw her brother, Tereus, committing a horrible crime and to keep her from revealing him, he cut out her tongue. However, Philomela and her sister made a tapestry showing his crime. As revenge, he tried killing her, but the gods turned her into a nightingale, making…

poem depicting Sidney’s grief at being unable to be with a lover that he admires. In it, the poet once again makes use of allusion to ancient mythology, referring to the story of Philomela, a young maiden who was raped and imprisoned by a man named Tereus (Student Writing Center). Sidney emphasizes what he feels to be his plight in these last few lines of the…

Philomel was subjected to intense sexual violence by her sister’s husband, Tereus, however, Philomel is able to transform herself into a nightingale and escape the torment of her abusers. In the poem, Eliot is referencing the painting of the Philomel scene in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which hangs above the mantel in the room of a woman…

This paper investigates the issue of syntactic deviation: word order (fronting, postponement, and discontinuity) from stylistic point of view. The construction here exemplified by clauses in T.S Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land”. Biber et al (1999:900) pointed out; “fronting has to do with placing core elements which tend to appear after the verb in pre-verbal position”. The purpose of the study is to examine obligatory adjunct, optional adjunct, and direct object and object complement fronting…