Drowned Hamlet

[rushthatspeaks]

An occasional piece, for sovay and for papersky. Some context here.


Sea-Change

The prince's eyes did not turn into pearl.
Tendrils of coral do not shroud his bones.
The sharks and worms who eat his flesh, unfurl
his ribs, destroy his heart-- ignore his throne.
The sea-nymphs do not ring their knells for him.
His antic disposition is dispersed.
His brain is dead, his humor, sorrow, whim,
the essay Wittenberg might give a First.
And yet, he would not think his life too short:
Ophelia is happy still, at court.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Witty!

Nine

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Thank you! This is what happens when other people's poems mate-- first I was pondering Hamlet drowned, and then other drownings, but I don't know how Sonnet 130 got into it.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Or does the sonnet not show? I swiped the metrical peculiarities. And the structure.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Oh, neat!

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

*beautiful!*

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I am happy (well, as happy as one gets) with how this came out.

[zdenka]

I really like that.

I still wish I knew what the original context was, though . . .

[sovay]

I still wish I knew what the original context was, though . . .

This exchange with asakiyume grew a poem (friendlocked, as it is currently under submission); papersky took it from there. Feel free to add to the discourse. I plan on showing Kozintsev's Hamlet to as many people as I can herd into the same room when it comes in from Netflix. The subtitles are annoying, but not sufficient to interfere with the film.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

The entire concept of Hamlet in Russian makes me very happy.

So yeah, this poem came out of papersky's pre-Raphaelite interpretation of sovay's viewing of the Russian film version.

Clearly somebody needs to see mine and write a Broadway musical.

[eredien]

So--has it come in from Netflix yet?

[sovay]

Ophelia is happy still, at court.

Prrrrrt.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Glad you like.

[sovay]

Glad you like.

Very much. Thank you.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

That's very neat.