...and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon. — Milton. Oh, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought the billows...and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper. — Shakspeare. O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! Cold...

...guilt, Like poison given to work a great time after, Now 'gins to bite the spirits. Shake. Tempe*. O, it is monstrous ! — monstrous ! Methought, the...and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronoune'd The name of Prosper. Shake. Tempest. Thus eonseienee does make eowards of us all ; And thus...

...learns to listen to his own guilt ; but this is reduced to, O, it is monstrous, monstrous ! Met bought the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did...pronounc'd The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. . . . So too with the young lovers: compared with Florizel and Perdita they have very little to say...

...has internalized an understanding of what the storm means, as we can see in his concluding speech: Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it; The...deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prospero; it did base my trespass. (96-99) In other words, the storm exemplifies the court's guilt,...

...something holy, sir, why stand you In this strange stare? Alonso O, it is monstrous, monstrous! 100 Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it; The...and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i" th' ooze is bedded; and...

...King's ears, Ariel's ominous poetic words become the threatening sounds of the sea, wind, and thunder: O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows...pronounc'd The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. Therefor my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with...

...star.14 At the end of The Waste Land the protagonist listens to the voice of the thunder, as Alonso does: O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows...and the thunder. That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper. It did bass my trespass. (3.3.95-9) The Waste Land quester also hears...

...consciousness of the need to reform takes shape as a denial of self. He literally seeks self-burial: O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows...pronounc'd The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. Therefor my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with...

...of sin," one of whom, Alonso, uses the metaphor in describing his former barbarity against Prospero: O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought the billows...organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did base my trespass. (3.3.95-99) In fact, as in Montaigne, the most potentially damaging monstrosity in...

...down, but as the play unfolds we watch his soul rise up, up, up. From recognition of sin in act 3, Methought the billows spoke and told me of it, The...and the thunder. That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper. It did bass my trespass. (3.3.96-9) he passes to penitence in act 5:...