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"Hypnos" is a first-person narrative, written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Kent and later London, England.The narrator writes that he fears sleep, and is resolved to write his story down lest it drive him further mad, regardless of what people think after reading it.
In Greek mythology, Hypnos (/ ˈ h ɪ p n ɒ s /; Ancient Greek: Ὕπνος, 'sleep'), [3] also spelled Hypnus, is the personification of sleep. The Roman equivalent is Somnus . [ 4 ] His name is the origin of the word hypnosis . [ 5 ]
Lullaby by François Nicholas Riss A lullaby (/ ˈ l ʌ l ə b aɪ /), or a cradle song, is a soothing song or piece of music that is usually played for (or sung to) children (for adults see music and sleep). The purposes of lullabies vary. In some societies, they are used to pass down cultural knowledge or tradition.
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The painting itself is a reference to the Greek gods Hypnos (sleep) and Thanatos (death) who, in the Greek mythology, were brothers.Despite their similar poses in the painting, the character in the foreground is bathed in light, while his brother is shrouded in darkness; the first therefore represents Sleep, the latter Death. [4]
Madonna and Child in a 14th century wall painting, Oxfordshire. "Lullay, mine liking" is a Middle English lyric poem or carol of the 15th century which frames a narrative describing an encounter of the Nativity with a song sung by the Virgin Mary to the infant Christ. [1]
"The Virgin's Cradle Hymn" is a short lullaby text. It was collected while on a tour of Germany by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge , and published in his Sibylline Leaves of 1817. [ 1 ] According to his own note, Coleridge copied the Latin text from a "print of the Blessed Virgin in a Catholic village in Germany", which he later ...