The Lover

“The Lover”

“The lunatic, the lover and the poet

Are of imagination all compact”, 

Act 5, Scene 1, A Midsummer Night’s Dream 

The Duke of Athens says this in response to the strange magical tale that the lovers tell him. Shakespeare believed that lovers, lunatics and poets are strongly swayed by the power of imagination. 

The lover almost blends with the pink sky, lost in the thoughts of her love. Flowers bloom all around her, but do they comfort her or make her more lovelorn?