Full Fathom Five
Full Fathom Five
Full Fathom Five
Ariel, he will sing his song. he is telling him in his song “ full fathom five
your father lies” your father is lying thirty feet at the bottom of the
sea. Thirty feet = because fathom equal six feet used to measure the
depth of the sea.
This fathom is repeated five times so it is 6 × 5 = 30.
Ariel is singing the song telling Ferdinand that his father is lying in the
sea about 30 feet at the bottom of the sea.
Line 1 and 2 is metaphor, he wants to say even if your father is dead
but if does not mean that your father ends. Death is a gate for another
life. Death is not the end of our life. Death is transitional stage, through
this stage we are going to another life.
Line 2 : of his bones are coral made;
He died and death does not means he fade. By contrast, his body is
transformed into something rich. The pearls is expensive, also coral is
expensive. In the word “ rich” he means the precious things or thing
have value and useful.
His body transformed into strange,
Strange because coral and pearls are not part of human nature. So it is
strange because he changes into things that are strange of Human
nature. He does not transformed into something Human have. Human
have not coral and pearls.
Line 7 : Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell.
Ding – dong!
In the sea there creatures that are called nymphs. They are going to
ring the bell, they ring the bell to declare the death of someone, in the
church they either bring the bell in weddings or in the death of
someone.
Because it is death, the rhythm of the bell is sad, Ding – dong. And it is
similar to the word “ death” both of them starts with the letter “d” and
death also.
Figure of speech :
Ding – dong and hear = auditory image.
Coral and pearls = visual image.
Ding – dong = Onomatopoeia.
Onomatopoeia, the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation
of the sound associated with it.
Dong – dong, This sound is Onomatopoeia of death.
Line 1 Alliteration. Full fathom five father.
Assonance = Five lies
.Contrast between line 4 – and 5
But = refers to contrast = he says Even though he died and his body
fade, but he is still alive. The Spirit never fades.
.Enjambment line 5 and 6
The poem is sonnet and Lyric, Lyric a poem is written to be song.