Difference between revisions of "I ate the wind"

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**Other references to Shakespeare’s tragedies nearby: → [[moor before the tomb]], [[cousin charmian]]
 
**Other references to Shakespeare’s tragedies nearby: → [[moor before the tomb]], [[cousin charmian]]
  
* '''I ate the wind:''' cf. W. B. Yeats description of Maud Gonne: “Hollow of cheek as though it drank the air”.
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* '''I ate the wind:''' cf. W. B. Yeats description of Maud Gonne: “Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind”.
  
 
* '''I ate the wind:''' in [[Vico|Vico’s]] 1st Age, mute religious acts constitute language
 
* '''I ate the wind:''' in [[Vico|Vico’s]] 1st Age, mute religious acts constitute language
  
 
*'''I ate the wind:''' I was so poor that I had nothing to eat but the wind
 
*'''I ate the wind:''' I was so poor that I had nothing to eat but the wind

Revision as of 06:15, 14 June 2020

  • I ate the wind: cf. W. B. Yeats description of Maud Gonne: “Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind”.
  • I ate the wind: in Vico’s 1st Age, mute religious acts constitute language
  • I ate the wind: I was so poor that I had nothing to eat but the wind