Introduction to English Literature- second course

By: Hayder Gebreen

4-The Lyric poem: usually a short poem like a song which is usually the expression
of a mood or feeling.
Full Fathom Five
By: William Shakespeare
‫على عمق خمسة باعات تحت الماء‬
‫يرقد والدك كما يرغب ويشاء‬
‫وعظامه الى مرجان تتحول‬
‫وعيونه البراقة حوله تتجول‬
‫وفي داخله ال شي يتغير‬
‫بينما البحر في تصرفاته محير‬
‫اذ ينقلب الى فيض الضياء‬
‫ يسحر في كل حين ببهاء‬,‫نادر‬
‫عرائس البحر التي تنعيه‬
‫وعلى حميد مزاياه تبكيه‬
‫ دينغ دونغ‬,‫دينغ دونغ‬
‫اصغوا جيدا الى ما اسمع من غوغاء‬
Analysis:
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:

The poem Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies occurs in Shakespeare’s play, The
Tempest, Act I, Scene 2. The spirit Ariel sings this song to Ferdinand, Prince of Naples,
whom mistakenly thinks his father is drowned. Ariel is telling Ferdinand that your
father lies full thirty feet below the surface of the sea. His bones have been changed
into a piece of coral. His eyes have been transformed into pearls.

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.

Every part of his body that was supposed to decay has been changed into something
rich and strange, but something belonging to the sea or connected with it. The sea
nymphs who live in the sea are ringing his death bell every hour. Death is quite
meaningful in this poem. No part of the dead body has decayed. They have been
changed into something valuable. Coral are made of the bones, and eyes are changed
into pearls. In this poem “Ding-dong” is the example of onomatopoeia. It imitates the
sound of the bell and makes the readers feel that he is listening to the bell.