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 A new blog to contain answers to prompts |
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one. Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.  |
| Prompt: Worms “A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.” William Shakespeare What do you think Shakespeare means here, and what do you think worms are for, especially the earthworms? ----- I always liked earthworms as a child. They were ugly but so useful. I used to kneel down and watch them drag themselves on the ground. Well, I'm no Shakespeare and that was the best I could do at my young age, then, where worms were concerned. Thinking about this quote, however, I now think that this image is grotesque. Maybe because death and decay are grotesque, also. From this angle, I guess it is fitting as an image. The image refers to: a king’s body, buried in the earth, is consumed by worms. Those worms become bait for fishing. A fish eats the worm, and then a man eats the fish. In this circle, the remains of a mighty king pass through the humblest forms of life and back into the common food chain. Well, I may never eat again! Yet, this image points to the fact that death levels everyone to the same nothingness. No matter how powerful or royal someone is in life, their body ultimately feeds the same worms as any common person. Hamlet was the one uttering these words, and his obsession with the corruption of the body and power plays are hinted at through his mention of the worms. Well, tell me about it, I mean the power plays without giving any thought to our basic elements! This is so existential and darkly funny! I am now, in old age, in the process of finding out that we have little control over what happens to our bodies. And also, that life is connected in weird and icky ways. On the other hand, gruesome though things may be, the grim and sardonic edge in the quote is ever so fascinating. But then, isn't Shakespeare ever so fascinating within all his works! |
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