Literature
Desdemona
See her there (whirling). She is a picture.
She is a statue in motion, marble
winding across the floor. Chaos, yet safe
in the Fates’ woven fabric tapestry.
She is harmless, (harmed) in unending dance,
for which Death is the only remedy.She is not ill, so needs no remedy,
but veiled is her virtue in the picture.
He does (not) see purity in her dance.
No, he is resolute as the marble,
trusting the (apocryphal) tapestry.
Due to the calumny, she is not safe.She was once (in love) protected and safe;
Iago’s lies have been the remedy
to that. He has aided the tapestry
weaving, and illustrated a picture
in the cold unfeeling, he...