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"Ariel's Song" is a verse passage in Scene ii of Act I of William Shakespeare's ''The Tempest''. It consists of two stanzas to be delivered by the spirit Ariel, in the hearing of Ferdinand. In performance it is sometimes sung and sometimes spoken, each of those approaches having its own basis in Elizabethan practice. == "Full Fathom Five" == "Full Fathom Five" is the second stanza of "Ariel's song",〔("Poem of the Week" site )〕 better known than the first, and often presented alone. It implicitly addresses Ferdinand, who with his father has just gone through a shipwreck in which the father supposedly drowned. It is the origin of the identically worded catchphrase, which means "at a depth of five fathoms (water )", and thus, in most evocations, drowned and lost as the father is. This stanza also provided the source of the contemporary English usage of "sea change". Modern usage of the phrase is seldom specific to the sea or drowning, but generally refers to any change that was unanticipated and seems "beyond recognition" in degree. The lines of Ariel's Song do not indicate whether the "sea change" was caused by the application of Prospero's magical powers, or whether it was solely the result of a natural metamorphosis of the body as it rested in the environment of the deep sea. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ariel's Song」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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