Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Poem Of The Week

This is probably my favourite Pre-Raphaelite painting. It is by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the painting is called "Beata Beatrix".





Completed in 1870, it depicts Beatrice Portinari from Dante Alighieri's poem La Vita Nuova at the moment of her death. The painting's title in English translates to 'Blessed Beatrice'. La Vita Nuova had been a story that Rossetti had found of interest from childhood and he had begun work translating it into English in 1845 and published it in his work, The Early Italian Poets.Rossetti modeled Beatrice after his deceased wife and frequent model, Elizabeth Siddal, who died in 1862.

Rossetti said he intended the painting "not as a representation of the incident of the death of Beatrice, but as an ideal of the subject, symbolized by a trance , or sudden spiritual transfiguration". I think that it could be symbolic of sexual ecstasy.

As well as a painter he was also a poet, and this poem i have chosen as my "poem of the week".


The Lady’s Lament
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Never happy any more!
Aye, turn the saying o'er and o'er,
It says but what it said before,
And heart and life are just as sore.
The wet leaves blow aslant the floor
In the rain through the open door.
No, no more.
Never happy any more!
The eyes are weary and give o'er,
But still the soul weeps as before.
And always must each one deplore
Each once, nor bear what others bore?
This is now as it was of yore.
No, no more.
Never happy any more!
Is it not but a sorry lore
That says, “Take strength, the worst is o'er”?
Shall the stars seem as heretofore?
The day wears on more and more—
While I was weeping the day wore.
No, no more.
Never happy any more!
In the cold behind the door
That was the dial striking four:
One for joy the past hours bore,
Two for hope and will cast o'er,
One for the naked dark before.
No, no more.
Never happy any more!
Put the light out, shut the door,
Sweep the wet leaves from the floor.
Even thus Fate's hand has swept her floor,
Even thus Love's hand has shut the door
Through which his warm feet passed of yore.
Shall it be opened any more?
No, no, no more.

Dr.Who - The Girl Who Lived (No Spoilers)

Well another great romp into historical times (well 1651 to be precise) with Dr.Who and the girl from the Viking episode. And yes, we see the outcome of the Doctor making a normal human as immortal like him, and the consequences that can bring. This was , in my humble opinion, the best episode yet.

It's Going Around

Grabbed from seaivy and engarian


Grab the nearest book. Find the 5th sentence on page 23. Append it to the paragraph below. Append your name to the list below of people who have contributed to the paragraph. Post the result to your LJ.



They also talk of our being guilty of injustice, and their being the victims of an unjustifiable war. Brandy, and Tom got increasingly close-mouthed and sour. Although a certain sense of tripartite society survived down to Christian times, the three classes described in the Eddic poem "Rigdthula" bear little resemblance to Dumezil's three. It is often argued, and still oftener thought, that none but bad men would desire to weaken these salutary beliefs; and there can be nothing wrong, it is thought, in restraining bad men, and prohibiting what only such men would wish to practice.

At its nearest point the wall was little more than one league from the City, and that was south-eastward. When he saw Jack Hare jump towards the fire, and the Practical Man brandishing the toasting-fork, Sir Isaac grabbed the strings of gravitational force that bound Jack to his destiny and PULLED--- That's a seventy-four gun privateer, besides. To honour a group of British nobles, treacherously slain at a conference by Hengist's guards, Aurelius decides to erect a great monument near Amesbury. That being so, he did not chortle when he went upstairs. Let stand. This ensures that when the garbage collector runs, it has complete access to the memory in the heap and can perform its tasks safely without the threat of being preempted by another thread. And then you may begin to laugh. The data are stored in Column 1 and renamed "Age."

Pull your hand back. I don't remember that any secrets were revealed to me, nor do I remember any avid curiosity on my part to learn something I wasn't supposed to--perhaps I was too young to know what to listen for. You don't remember how awful it is being normal. Highlight the desired state tax table and press Enter. Abraham had now reached a ripe old age, and the LORD had blessed him in every way. The third lieutenant started, then said a little weakly, "Huzzah for Captain Riley."

"Oh," said Pooh. In fact White had carelessly placed the team in Nip without realising it,
He poached and scavenged, and sometimes the locals would bring them gifts of potatoes or fuel. It was a heady life, and cheap. Because hysterical girly crying, unlike suicide, is definitely contagious.

But in truth, I felt nothing.

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Today Two Visits

Two visits today. One in Eastbourne, which is a mobile phone shop covet job and the other in Brighton for an outdoor clothing retailer.

Weather is dry, sunny and surprisingly warm, as i have just been outside to have a quick smoke on the pipe.

Georgina is still hobbling around, but a friend of hers has given her a walking stick and a zimmer frame. I have told her to see her doctor as a precautionary measure.

I will be staying til Wednesday as i have other jobs in Kent to finish off but will be back by Friday for the halloween weekend.

More Flash

Yesterday i watched three episodes of The Flash from Sky Box Sets. These are the episodes i missed from the first season after the mid season break. So that would have been episode 12 onward and hence have a few more to go yet - being episodes 15 to 23.