Rosse: "I have words that should be howl'd out in the desert air. And the main part pertains to you alone."
Macduff: "If it be mine; keep it not from me. Quickly let me have it."
Rosse: "Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes savagely slaughter'd."
[A pause; Macduff says nothing.]
Malcolm: "Merciful heaven! What, man, give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the oer-fraught heart, and bids it break."
Macduff: "My children too?"
Rosse: "Wife, children, servants -- all."
Malcolm: "Let's make us med'cine of our great revenge."
Macduff: "He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O, hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam?"
Malcolm: "Dispute it like a man."
Macduff: "I shall do so, but I must also feel it as a man! Did heaven look on, and would not take their part?"
Malcolm: "Be this the whetstone of your sword; let grief convert to anger."
Macduff: "Front to front, bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; within my sword's length set him!"
29 comments:
What a clever, brilliant take on the prompt! O hell-kite, that was good!
You transformed the prompt into an elegy with a wonderful quote.
Thanks, lightverse and Rinkly, for such enthusiastic comments.
Nice Magpie!
I always wondered what a whetstone looks like. This is one of the most powerful pieces of script in Shakespeare.
Beautiful...
Here is my magpie:
a wheel barrow
I can see how multiple slaughter fits this image!
The castle was sacked, inhabitants slaughtered, chickens and all. Grief succumbed to anger. I see how it works. Great Magpie!
Such a distinct anger, carried from this piece, to pierce the hearts so savagely. Love how you are able to create a Shakespearean response to all prompts.
Dear Berowne,
Ahh, this is a surprise - to take us to Macbeth's tragedy - the killing of the wrong father and the wrong babes.
I have just started a shelf on Shakespeare at home, after my Malaysiana, children's books/classics and Home decor collection. I don't know know why I never embarked on this before.
Cheers!
The black darkness of that image makes me think of death too. Very nice.
I Cannot Write
great take on the sulpture...excellent!
Brillant take on this sculpture...Ah, Scotland...Ah, MacBeth...bkm
What a fantastic collection of comments! bkm: "Brilliant Take" kathew: "Excellent!" kaykuala: "Great Magpie!" gautami: "Beautiful"
My sincere thanks to all.
Powerful! And I'm definitely adopting the O, hell-kite for use.
Only you could deduct Macbeth here, Mr. B. Well done.
Here's to Tess, who has left the busy d'Urbervilles to come make a comment in my blog -- thanks!
Everyday : "Powerful! And I'm definitely adopting the O, hell-kite for use."
Yes, I can see where the phrase might come in handy for a number of occasions. :-)
Strong and dark response, love your take.
I can see "multiple slaughter" and a "whetstone" as your interpretations here and a unique take of the prompt, a modern art well put in Shakespearean era :)
That's a great twist on the Magpie! I saw violence there too...but who can express it as well as S? Thanks for the comment on mine as well. You know, the more I look at it the more it looks someone being choked.
uh huh hah! a mysterious take on words for a mystrious object....the words fit the whatever it is!
hmm. I, too, saw more violence and grief in this "modern sculpture". And yes, revenge. I wonder if Tess will ever spill the beans? (that is if it is actually something she found in an antique store). Nice job.
The way you have written this, places me, the reader, the audience member, right there at the foot of the conversation. I feel like I am in their presence, looking on and am eager to find out what's next...
A blood thirsty wiew...
This image made me want to howl in the desert air as well. :)
Did you see the prompt as a symbolic sharpening stone? Very interested to hear how you linked the prompt to this scene from Macbeth.
P.S. The iambic pentameters that were good enough for WS are good enough for me. So much "modern"poetry admits of no rhythm at all.
Lucy W.: "Very interested to hear how you linked the prompt to this scene from Macbeth."
As I viewed the prompt, this famous scene appeared immediately in my mind's eye.
Now that was a supremely unique take on the Magpie!! And it was thoroughly amazing!!
Aaahhh--- vengeance! The mother of all evil!!!!
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