 | Charles Olson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 492 pages
...pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en...superflux to them And show the heavens more just. Gloucester's words come later, Act IV, Sc. 1 . It is the purgatorial dispensation of the whole play.... | |
 | James Ogden, Arthur Hawley Scouten - Drama - 1997 - 316 pages
...his poorer subjects experience in such conditions and becomes aware of his own shortcomings as king. O! I have ta'en Too little care of this. Take physic,...superflux to them, And show the Heavens more just. (3.4.32-36) These lines suggest that Kurosawa is wrong to claim that "Lear never reflects on his past... | |
 | Andrew Wachtel - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 328 pages
...pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en...superflux to them, And show the heavens more just. 10. The original poem has no title. 11. The original poem has no title. Boris Gasparov Temporal Counterpoint... | |
 | Anne Waldron Neumann - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 196 pages
...pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggeaness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en...superflux to them, And show the heavens more just. (3.4.28-36) A few lines later, Lear confronts just such wretchedness. The Earl of Gloucester has two... | |
 | Marshall Berman - Philosophy - 1999 - 300 pages
...heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window 'd raggedness defend you From seasons such as these? O,I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;...superflux to them, And show the heavens more just. (Ill, 4, 28-36) It is only now that Lear might be fit to be what he claims to be, "every inch a king."... | |
 | Alexander Welsh - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 252 pages
...pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window 'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en...shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.1 In his extremity Shakespeare's Lear has glimpsed a connection between pomp and what wretches... | |
 | Linda Woodbridge - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 360 pages
...pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en...superflux to them And show the heavens more just. (3.4.26-36; emphasis added) Lear's new social consciousness goes farther than anybody else's. Edgar's... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - Mirror symmetry - 2001 - 940 pages
...pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O! I have ta'en...superflux to them, And show the Heavens more just. (3.4.28-36) Previously (as we have just seen), Lear thought of the storm in moral terms, that it punished... | |
 | Lloyd Cameron - English literature - 2001 - 114 pages
...heads and unfed sides. Your looped and windowed raggedness defend you From seasons such as these? OI have ta'en Too little care of this. Take physic, pomp,...superflux to them. And show the heavens more just. (Lear) Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues Have humbled to all strokes. That I am... | |
 | Frederick Buechner - Religion - 2009 - 178 pages
...sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta' en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose...superflux to them And show the heavens more just. By saying "To show the heavens more just," Lear means that because the heavens, if they exist at all... | |
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Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this... 
