 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1988 - 228 pages
...something holy, sir, why stand you In this strange stare? Alonso O, it is monstrous, monstrous! 100 Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it; The...and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i" th' ooze is bedded; and... | |
 | Maurice Hunt - Drama - 1990 - 196 pages
...King's ears, Ariel's ominous poetic words become the threatening sounds of the sea, wind, and thunder: O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows...pronounc'd The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. Therefor my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 296 pages
...star.14 At the end of The Waste Land the protagonist listens to the voice of the thunder, as Alonso does: O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows...and the thunder. That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper. It did bass my trespass. (3.3.95-9) The Waste Land quester also hears... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - Drama - 1992 - 256 pages
...consciousness of the need to reform takes shape as a denial of self. He literally seeks self-burial: O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows...pronounc'd The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. Therefor my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with... | |
 | Cynthia Lewis - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 268 pages
...of sin," one of whom, Alonso, uses the metaphor in describing his former barbarity against Prospero: O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought the billows...organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did base my trespass. (3.3.95-99) In fact, as in Montaigne, the most potentially damaging monstrosity in... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2000 - 254 pages
...down, but as the play unfolds we watch his soul rise up, up, up. From recognition of sin in act 3, Methought the billows spoke and told me of it, The...and the thunder. That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper. It did bass my trespass. (3.3.96-9) he passes to penitence in act 5:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 164 pages
...[Exit above Gonzalo I' th' name of something holy, sir, why stand you 95 In this strange stare? Alonso O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows...pronounc'd The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. 100 Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 436 pages
...the words that Ariel-as-Harpy delivers, not as the words of a Harpy, but as words uttered by the sea: O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows...spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me . . . (3,3,95—7) In keeping with the island's tendency to take a form conjured by individual perceivers,... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 276 pages
...a madness that will turn out to be healing, his imagery echoes the picture that Ariel has evoked : O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows...pronounc'd The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. Therefor my son i' th' ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 276 pages
...attitude towards Prospero. Alonso himself expresses the Orphic association of music and the sea-bed: Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it; The...pronounc'd The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. Therefor my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and .I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with... | |
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O, it is monstrous, monstrous ! Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it ; The winds did sing it to me ; and the thunder. That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper : it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' th' ooze is... 
