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errors of 400 years-shakespeare
Examine the
meaning of the word "Flood"
W.Turner gives word Waves as the meaning of the word
flood.
For Roma Gill the meaning of the word flood is Sea.
In my earlier works on Julius Caesar and the Tempest, I have logically established that the word flood can never be an interchangeable synonym of Sea. Word flood can be applied only to a moving water body and the sea is not a moving water body.
I have heard of floods of river Ganges or river Krishna or of river Godavari but I have never heard of floods of Indian Ocean or of Arabian Sea. Did you hear of the floods caused by the Seas or Oceans?
Shakespeare generally uses words such as tide and flood to connote the height. Read the dialogue of Brutus in Act IV scene III of Julius Caesar "In every man’s affair there is a tide, when taken on flood…….etc. Read Sarojini Naidu’s "Queens Rival" where she uses word "Lunar Tide" to connote the height or the prime youth of a woman.
Refer Roget’s Para 734 and you will find a meaning option "Prosperity" for the word "Flood."
However you be the better judge.
Published: February 11, 2006
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