 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, pronounced The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded;...  The Works of Shakespeare - Page 467by William Shakespeare - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander, Stanley Wells - 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...pronounced The name of Prosper. It did bass my trespass. (3.3.96-9) he passes to penitence in act 5: 'Thy dukedom I resign, and do entreat / Thou pardon me... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 244 pages
...(Act 1 scene 2 lines 149-151) Personification: Referring to a thing or an idea as if it were a person: 'Methought the billows spoke and told me of it, The...dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper.' (Act 3 scene 3 lines 96-99) Play on words: see Pun. Prose: In some scenes, characters' speeches are... | |
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