Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Two Literary References in Hemingway Stories

"Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of his bones are coral made,
Those are pearls that were his eyes,
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change,
into something rich and strange,
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell,
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them, ding-dong, bell."

--Shakespeare, Ariel’s Song in The Tempest


Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hate needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.


--Alexander Pope, from The Essay on Man

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