"The Burial of the Dead" Annotations
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| − | This comes from the Wagner opera ''Tristan and Isolde'' (1865). A sailor sings a song about an Irish woman left behind, as they sail Isolde from Cornwall to Ireland to marry King Mark. This is also a foreshadowing of Isolde's failure later in the opera to come to Tristan's aid, when he dies waiting for her to come and magically heal him. | + | This comes from the Wagner opera ''Tristan and Isolde'' (1865). A sailor sings a song about an Irish woman left behind, as they sail Isolde from Cornwall to Ireland to marry King Mark. This is also a foreshadowing of Isolde's failure later in the opera to come to Tristan's aid, when he dies waiting for her to come and magically heal him. Again, it is the failure of woman to rejuvenate men that ends in tragedy. |
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