Monologue

Admetus Monologue from Alcestis

From Alcestis by Euripides

male · anguished · 56 sec

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Ye shapes that front me, wall and gate, How shall I enter in and dwell Among ye, with all Fortune's spell Dischanted? Aye, the change is great. That day I strode with bridal song Through lifted brands of Pelian pine; A hand belovèd lay in mine; And loud behind a revelling throng Exalted me and her, the dead. They called us young, high-hearted; told How princes were our sires of old, And how we loved and we must wed.... For those high songs, lo, men that moan, And raiment black where once was white; Who guide me homeward in the night, On that waste bed to lie alone.

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Admetus reflects on his profound loss and the stark contrast between his past joy and current sorrow as he faces the reality of living without his beloved wife, Alcestis.

30s · sadness · love · death · isolation · fate

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