[lit-ideas] Re: "Patience on a Monument"
- From: Eric Yost <NYCEric@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:26:46 -0400
I think it brings us no nearer to
understanding what Shakespeare's audience understood by "Sitting like
Patience on a Monument."
Couldn't they merely have relished the redundancy of Patience
--personified virtue--rendered even more patient by being set in stone.
As in this section from Herbert:
Mark you the floore? that square & speckled stone,
Which looks so firm and strong,
Is Patience:
-George Herbert "The Church-Floor"
Fidgety as Restlessness on a Rollercoaster,
Eric
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