...And then I'll speak a little. Cor. \_After holding her by the hand in silence."} O mother, mother ! What have you done ? Behold, the heavens do ope, The...unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother ! O ! You've won a happy victory to Rome ; But for your son, — • believe it, O, believe it, — Most...

...be a-fire, And then I '11 speak a little. [He holds her by the hand, tilent. Cor. O mother, mother ! What have you done ? Behold, the heavens do ope, The...mother ! O ! You have won a happy victory to Rome ; Bat, for your son, — believe it, O, believe it, Most dangerously you have with him prevail'd, If...

...appeal of his mother and wife,—a surrender which, he knows, will cost his life :— O mother, mother! What have you done ? Behold, the heavens do ope, The...my mother, mother! O! You have won a happy victory for Rome; But (or your son, believe it, O believe it, Most dangerously you have with him prevailed,...

...Coriolanus's words of agony to his mother as he relents and "Holds her by the hand, silent." O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The...But , for your son — believe it , O , believe it ! — 'I quote from North's translation of Plutarch's biography of Coriolanus, which is given in an...

...sees his mother's victory as a personal defeat from which only Rome will profit: O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The...O, believe it, Most dangerously you have with him prevaiPd, If not most mortal to him. But let it come. (v.3. 182-9) Shakespeare makes the personal encounter...

...and his humanity reasserts itself, as he responds to his mother's silent appeal: O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold the heavens do ope. The...look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. (V.iii. 182-4) The statesman in Eliot's poem also appeals to a mother, for some kind of meeting or...

...the gods he has tried to support, and from whom he has expected support in turn: O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope. The...look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. (5.3.182) At what do the gods laugh? Partly at the spectacle of a noble opponent of the market who,...

...devastating effect can be lost in lust the reading), he bursts out metatheatrically with: 0 mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The...look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. 0 my mother, mother, 0! (5.3.183-6) That word 'unnatural' cuts many ways (see 5.3.185 n.). It is bad...

...spared Rome. Holding his mother "by the hand, silent," for a time, he bursts out, O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The...look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. (5.3.182) But the tragic recognition of his fate and its acceptance are only temporary. A moment later...

...submission which is also a moment of self-examination and an acceptance of his fate. O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The...it, O believe it, Most dangerously you have with him prevailed, If not most mortal to him. But let it come. (5.3.183-90) He knows he has signed his own...