Prothalamion

Hoton da Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ya yi

Prothalamion

Prothalamion, sunan da aka saba amfani da shi na Prothalamiin; ko, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset, waka ce ta Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), ɗaya daga cikin mahimman mawaƙa na zamanin Tudor a Ingila. An buga shi a shekara ta 1596, [1] waƙar aure ce da ya rubuta a wannan shekarar a lokacin auren tagwaye na 'ya'yan Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester, Elizabeth Somerset da Katherine Somerset.

Ganawa da budurwa

An rubuta Prothalamion a cikin al'ada na waƙar aure. Waƙar ta fara ne da bayanin Kogin Thames inda Spenser ya sami kyawawan budurwai biyu. Marubucin ya ci gaba da yabon su kuma ya yi musu fatan alheri ga aurensu. Waƙar ta fara ne da kyakkyawar bayanin ranar da yake rubuta waƙar:

Calm was the day and through the trembling air
The sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play.

Bayyanawa game da Leda da Labarin Swan

Ya ci gaba da waka inda ya kwatanta swans biyu a Thames, yana danganta shi da tatsuniyar Jove da Leda . A cewar tatsuniyar, Jove ya ƙaunaci Leda kuma ya zo kotu da ita a matsayin kyakkyawa. Marubucin yana jin cewa Thames ya yi adalci ga waƙarsa ta aure ta hanyar "yana gudana a hankali" bisa ga bukatarsa: "Thames mai dadi yana gudana a taushi har sai na gama waƙata".

Haɗi zuwa Epithalamion

Sau da yawa ana haɗa waƙar tare da waƙar Spenser game da aurensa, Epithalamion .

Daidaitawa

Mawallafin Burtaniya mai suna T. S. Eliot ya ambaci layin "Sweet Thames, gudu a hankali, har sai na gama waƙata" a cikin waka ta 1922 The Waste Land . Mawallafin Ingilishi George Dyson (1883-1964) ya saita kalmomi daga Prothalamion zuwa kiɗa a cikin cantata na 1954 Sweet Thames Run Softly .