Author : George SAND
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (657 download)
Book Synopsis The DEVIL's POOL (Annotated) by : George SAND
Download or read book The DEVIL's POOL (Annotated) written by George SAND and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quatrain in old French written below one of Holbein's pictures is profoundly sad in its simplicity. The engraving represents a ploughman driving his plough through a field. A vast expanse of country stretches away in the distance, with some poor cabins here and there; the sun is setting behind the hill. It is the close of a hard day's work. The peasant is a short, thick-set man, old, and clothed in rags. The four horses that he urges forward are thin and gaunt; the ploughshare is buried in rough, unyielding soil. A single figure is joyous and alert in that scene of sweat and toil. It is a fantastic personage, a skeleton armed with a whip, who runs in the furrow beside the terrified horses and belabors them, thus serving the old husbandman as ploughboy. This spectre, which Holbein has introduced allegorically in the succession of philosophical and religious subjects, at once lugubrious and burlesque, entitled the Dance of Death, is Death itself.
