Friday, 13 February 2009

Comedy and tragedy: a wordless visual psalm

comedy and tragedy

Caistor, Lincolnshire

An image to sit with and ponder.

 

Try this link for an informative discussion of comedy and tragedy in Shakespeare

See Sally's poems 'Faces of Being', 'Faces of Being 2' & Faces of Being 3 inspired by this photograph

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for this here is my response

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  2. How interesting, for a further contemplation upon these has revealed a third face in the shadows....

    It has a long nose and brought to mind the fairytail Pinocchio, whose nose grew when he told a lie...

    Perhaps we should be wary of the shadow side of being which is not either laughter or lament but untruth!

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