Sunday, February 25, 2018

Do I Dare to Eat an Apple?

Alright, so as we know, T.S. Eliot, besides writing The Waste Land, also wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and one of the lines (also a personal favorite of mine) is, "Do I dare to eat a peach?"  Hence, the title of this post (which will become clearer in a moment).

For Senior Leadership Day, I helped teach part of Paradise Lost to the AP English III class.  Part of the lesson was looking at some art related to Paradise Lost, including some depictions of Adam and Eve eating the apple or getting expelled from the Garden of Eden.  While I was reading Paradise Lost, specifically the scene where they are banned from Paradise, I imagined them wandering out into a barren waste land.  So, in honor of that, here are some depictions of Adam and Eve and the apple/getting banned.  Some of these should be familiar styles since we looked at some of the artists for Dante.
Chagall's "Expulsion from the Garden"

Chagall stained glass window:

William Blake:

Dali's "Amorous Repose"

Michelangelo:

Hieronymus Bosch's "The Last Judgment":

Bosch's "The Hay Wagon"





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