ellauri095.html on line 546: The phrase “And birds that call/Hoarse to the storm,” invites comparison with the son’s images of the windhover rebuffing the big wind in “The Windhover” (1877) and with the image of the great storm fowl at the conclusion of “Henry Purcell” (1879). The father’s prophecy, “thy sport is with the storm/To wrestle” is fulfilled in Gerard’s The Wreck of the Deutschland and “The Loss of the Eurydice” (1878). These two shipwreck poems, replete with spiritual instruction for those in doubt and danger were the son’s poetic and religious counterparts to his father’s 1873 volume, The Port of Refuge, or advice and instructions to the Master-Mariner in situations of doubt, difficulty, and danger.
ellauri118.html on line 1167: Eurydice in Greek mythology, the luckless bride bitten by a snake on her wedding day. Her husband, Orpheus, the famed musician, convinced Hades to let Eurydice return to earth. However, Orpheus disobeyed the strictures of the journey and looked at Eurydice too soon, thus dispatching her back to the abode of the dead forever.
ellauri241.html on line 333: But Orpheus-like at an Eurydice; vaan Orpheustyyppisesti Eurydikeeseen;
xxx/ellauri084.html on line 316: Orpheus and Eurydice (Greek)
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 544: Anouilh a lui-même organisé ses œuvres en séries thématiques, faisant alterner d´abord Pièces roses et Pièces noires. Les premières sont des comédies marquées par la fantaisie comme Le Bal des voleurs (1938) alors que les secondes montrent dans la gravité l´affrontement des « héros » entourés de gens ordinaires en prenant souvent appui sur des mythes comme Eurydice (1941), Antigone (1944) ou Médée (1946).
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