Ceres and Proserpina

Sexson asked me a little bit ago to look at how Shakespeare's The Tempest plays with mythology....well actually I asked him if I could write about how Shakespeare uses mythology in the last verse of The Tempest and instead he assigned to me act IV Scene I. He finished by saying something along the lines of how sublime the story of Ceres and Proserpina is.

Taking this as a not so subtle hint on the assignment I did just this and there has been three texts I've been paying close attention too. Two of course are The Tempest and Ovid's chapter in book V about Ceres and Proserpina. The third dwells in Frazer's Golden bow. While my "blog" on the the meaning behind the Tempest passages is not complete one thing I feel that is very important to write down is how Ceres and Proserpina represent how old gives birth to the new and that the new will ultimately become as the old, something that seems so obvious yet when reading Ovid's telling it doesn't always seem apparent. I feel there is definitely more to say yet I have not the words and I no not which muse to beckon to my aid....so adios!