Anonymous8: It's in "poetry". I've never been able to understand that language, despite the superficial similarities. The grammar, syntax, word usage, all of it is so vastly different.
Anonymous12: Not because it is the end of the year, but because all things end in winter, in a silent glistening death where life cools and retreats to its inner hideaways.
Anonymous15(14): skunktail: "The oppression of our family, which made life like a long winter, has been turned to a summery contentedness now that my brother is king."
You realise DIScontent means NOT content right?
College grade English must fail rather hard...
Anonymous17: I was watching family guy when i drew this, When i make a piece of work, i would put a random line from the show that was watching. Even with the miss quoted above, the actually meaning to it is subtle.
Urbane_Guerrilla: Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York;
And all the clouds that low'r'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Urbane_Guerrilla: @mylifeislol: Hm. I don't stand for anything but perfect grammar now. Not fully. I can forgive, but solecisms really strain that forgiving faculty, and without need, dammit.
it really has no fixed meaning...
but here is what college grade English says
now is the winter of our discontent
The oppression of our family, which made life like a long winter, has been turned to a summery contentedness now that my brother is king.
so as with most people the artist construed the saying into a negative thing.. or a positive... counts how you look at the artwork
Also, the quote is incredibly bizarre, given the scene depicted.
You realise DIScontent means NOT content right?
College grade English must fail rather hard...
Made glorious summer by this son of York;
And all the clouds that low'r'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
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