Pyramus and Thisbe

Pyramus - handomse youth
Thisbe - fair maiden
Lived in adjoining houses, brought together by love. There was a crack in the wall that had not been discovered until the lovers came by

What is it that love does not discover

Line 71-73 Why do you hinder the lovers? Could you let our bodies meet, or allow us to kiss each other. We are not ungrateful (Litotes) Thankful for the passage for their voices

They murmur farewell and goodnight

They wanted to decieve the guards in the silence of night, vanish outside. Meet by the grave of ninus and hide in shelter of a tree. Tall mulberry treey with dense white berries boardering a fountain.

Thisbe opens the door, decieves the guards, settles under the tree. Love makes her brave, lion comes and scares her off. The fierce lioness stains the garmet of Thisbe while she flees to a dark cave

Pyramus sees creatures tracks and is drained of color. He remarks that two lovers will be lost- argues that she deserved the long life more than he did. He says that he has claimed her life and that it is his fault. Carries the veil of Thisbe with him, cries on it.

He drives the sword into his groinm pulls it warm from the woumb. A blood spurts out as from a pipe. The fruit of the white tree is now blood red, sprinkeled with Thisbe's blood. Spurting represents sexual orgasm.

Thisbe returns and calls for her lover. Sees the tree and the color of the berries puzzle her. She sees the bloodstained earth and start back, terrified, like the sea, that trembles when the slightest breeze touches the surface, her face whiter than boxwood

CHIASMUS

epic periphrasis

the bond of marriage, METONYMY