Top, screen capture from I Stayed In Berlin All Summer directed by Angela Schanelec, 1994. Via. Bott
Top, screen capture from I Stayed In Berlin All Summer directed by Angela Schanelec, 1994. Via. Bottom, Lauren Yeager, Bases, 2018. Via. More.–The image of Laura’s mouth as an all-consuming hole recalls the “hell-mouth” motif of medieval demonology which […] literalizes the “consumption” of the sinner by sin in images of a giant mouth closing around the damned. In this case, Laura’s urge to consume— “I ate and ate my fill/Yet my mouth waters still” —represents at once her transgression and its consequence. She has sinned by eating and is punished by unquenchable thirst and starvation, “consumed,” as it were, by her longing for more fruit.Heather McAlpine, from Would Not Open Lip from Lip: Sacred Orality and the Christian Grotesque in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”, 2010. Via.– Laura started from her chair, Flung her arms up in the air, Clutch’d her hair: “Lizzie, Lizzie, have you tasted For my sake the fruit forbidden? Must your light like mine be hidden, Your young life like mine be wasted, Undone in mine undoing, And ruin’d in my ruin, Thirsty, canker’d, goblin-ridden?”— She clung about her sister, Kiss’d and kiss’d and kiss’d her: Tears once again Refresh’d her shrunken eyes, Dropping like rain After long sultry drouth; Shaking with aguish fear, and pain, She kiss’d and kiss’d her with a hungry mouth.Christina Rossetti, excerpt from Goblin Market, 1862. Via. -- source link
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