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Incidentally, ‘ruth’, which has come from late Old English ruthe, means misery, sorrow, pity or grief, whereas ‘Ruth’, as a feminine, proper name, has been derived from the Hebrew reut meaning companion, friend or fellow woman. Keats has projected Ruth as a sad figure standing ‘in tears’, whereas in the Old Testament, Ruth has a happy ending after tying the nuptial knot with another person in the ‘alien’ land. The song was heard in ancient times by emperor and clown and perhaps even by Ruth, whose story is told in the Old Testament. In the poem, Keats is highly obsessed with the song of the ‘immortal’ nightingale that he believes that the bird is free from the human fate of having to die. She was a Moabite woman who married an Israelite man, but soon became a widow on account of his early death. Ruth is one of five women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus found in the Gospel of Matthew, alongside Tamar, Rahab, Bathsheba and Mary.
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Ruth, part of the wordplay of 12a, with the capital R reminded me of the immortal lines “Perhaps the self-same song that found a path | Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, | She stood in tears amid the alien corn” of Keats penned for his ‘Ode to a Nightingale’.
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Once again, a friendly and straightforward Saturday puzzle from Cephas that I enjoyed solving and thereafter writing a review of the same for your kind reading and important feedback. This puzzle was published on 9 th July 2022īD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
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