Water seller
This jar I hold is a prison
The cup you wield, a jail
The water I pour
freshened with a fig
What I have for sale
Is this enough for me to explain
Why today should be this way
When your glass is empty
I’ll be around again
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I so want to know what this means. And I so want to never know what this means.
Thanks for this.
Haha yeah, if you’d like to know more about what inspired it, It was the artwork coupled with a little further reading into the genre that inspired it.
Link below to a brief scholarly article
Selling water for profit in the 17th century | Hopkins Press https://share.google/EF6cjK2PsadNGLAiA
Thanks for reading!
Beautiful. And I so want to know the art that inspired the poem!
Sure!
Artist: Diego Vasquez
Title: ” The Waterseller of Seville”
Date: c. 1620
Check out this link for more info:
https://smarthistory.org/velazquez-the-waterseller-of-seville/
the poem’s end rhyme contributes to the routine dailyness of the dynamic