Posts tagged “power of women”

  1. John Keats’ La Belle Dame Sans Merci

    ByDaniel Mallory Ortberg

    in Poetry

    SOME GUY, KEATS PROBABLY: my god, sir knight
    what has happened to you?
    you look like some sort of lake without sedges
    a sedgeless lake
    if such a thing can even be imagined
    no sedges on you
    a sedgeless man

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  2. King Solomon Getting Peer Pressured By His Babely Wives

    ByDaniel Mallory Ortberg

    in Western Art History

    We've talked a bit about the "Power of Women" motif popular in Renaissance-era European art before. It was a glorious time for art, when every neoclassicist Lowlander worth his salt painted women riding classical scholars like ponies and legendary heroes forced to wear beautiful pink dresses. And one of the more popular scenarios under the "Power of Women" umbrella was that of King Solomon being led into idolatry by his wives. You are, I…

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