"Death and The Maiden" and Other Allusions
The motif "Death and the Maiden", is related to, and may have been derived from the Danse Macabre. It has received numerous treatments in various mediums—most prominently Schubert's quartet of that name. Further developments of the Danse Macabre motif include "Death and the Physician," "Death and the Senator," "Death and the Compass," Death and the King's Horseman, and Death and the Daleks.
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Famous quotes containing the words death and/or maiden:
“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
“The Maiden caught me in the Wild,
Where I was dancing merrily;
She put me into her Cabinet
And Lock’d me up with a golden Key.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)