Talk:Full fathom five (catchphrase)

May Olivier
's actual contribution read
 * May Sinclair's Mary Olivier contains the first sixth verse of the song (Book Three "Adolescence", chapter viii)

and i have redacted "sixth verse" to
 * six lines

clarifying what is verifiably that IP's only reasonable intent, "six verses (in the formal sense)". --Jerzy•t 11:43, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

The Pregnant Widow
A colleague added
 * *Ariel's song (complete) is one of many Shakespeare references in the Martin Amis novel The Pregnant Widow.

In fact, however, Amis there excerpts 7 lines from the 2nd stanza of "Ariel's Song", but where he quotes them he includes nothing from the first stanza, and it appears that, at least, he never quotes any of its "Ding-dong" lines at all. He does quote most of "Full Fathom Five" --Jerzy•t 01:08, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Meaning
Hello,

Could anybody explain the exact meaning of this expression, either in its original context or in general?

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.171.137.211 (talk) 14:16, 22 May 2016 (UTC) Do you mean what is Ariel's song? That's the song that Ariel sings (Ariel is a character of Shakespeare's work titled "The tempest", is the spirit of the air, a sprite visible only to Prospero, another character), about the ending of the second scene of the first act, after the boat in the tempest reaches a desert island. More or less, the paraphrase of the song could be: "Your father is buried five fathom deep in the water, and he is not dead, that the magic of the sea was able to turn him in something rich and strange: his bones are coral and his eyes are pearls; once an hour, the nymphs ring for him the funeral bell." [maybe because he's never died]. Ugo Gagliardelli (talk) 07:35, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Ariel's song citation
In "Totem and Taboo" by Sigmund Freud, chapter IV, the first six verses of Ariel's song are reported in a foot-note. See also https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Totem_and_Taboo/Chapter_IV#cite_note-93. Should this be reported in "large portion" section? Ugo Gagliardelli (talk) 06:46, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Intro needs help
When reading this article, it opens by giving context of the source of the quotation, and then leads into a list of media using the phrase. Should it not somewhere describe what "full fathom five" commonly means? 156.154.61.54 (talk) 20:24, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture
Between this article and Full_fathom_five_(catchphrase), Full Fathom Five, Sea change (idiom), List of works titled after Shakespeare, etc., there is a lot of WP:CONTENTFORKING, WP:TRIVIA, etc., which should be tidied up. To that end I propose a WP:REDIR to Ariel's Song and a reduction in unreferenced content per WP:POPCULTURE banner. Cornellier (talk) 16:21, 9 January 2023 (UTC)