DOES THAT GIRL KNOW

SOFT YOU NOW THE FAIR OPHELIA

Towards place reinhabitation     Know nature

Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place

It must be grounded in knowledge and experience

LEARN THE FLOWERS FOR THE CHILDREN YOU MUST LEARN THE FLOWERS

GARY SNYDER american poet

Ophelia tries to tell this to a culture of violence and greed corruption

OPHELIA “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance.

Pray you, love, remember.

And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts,” said Ophelia to her brother Laertes. “There’s fennel for you, and columbines.

There’s rue for you, and here’s some for me;

we may call it herb of grace o’ Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference.

There’s a daisy.

I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.“

Shakespeare was writing during the reformation when Elizabeth 1 delivered

THE ACT OF UNIFORMITY mandating worship according to the Book Of Common Prayer

Everybody was to attend church on Sundays and holy days or be fined 12 pence.

In his work flowers operate as evidence of the divine persisting in nature after the fall.

A BOTANICAL IMAGINARY

Freud was reproached for neglecting the science of botany

Plants are polymorphous without the constraints of the oedipal complex

Botany acting in concert with psychoanalysis means to defy restrictions both gendered and sexual

The plant is something unfallen

I do not know my lord what I should think

Ophelia was never trusted to have a mind of her own,

Blinded to her own knowledge

Making garlands like a child making daisy chains

Playfully climbing a tree she falls

Late Spring Ozu

Ancient Egypt the first to represent flowers

H G WELLS Flower Child