Which operatic heroine dies after secretly following her lover into a vault where he was sentenced to die?
Immurement Radames is sealed in a vault at the Temple of Vulcan as punishment for treason. His lover Aida, without his knowledge, has hidden herself in the vault so they can die together. Aida dies as the tomb is being sealed, with Radames awaiting his own death after the final curtain. In Elmore Leonard's 1980 novel "City Primeval", a criminal is threatened with immurement in a concealed basement safe room. Immurement Immurement (from Latin "im-" "in" and "murus" "wall"; literally "walling in") is a form of imprisonment, usually for life, in which a person is placed within an enclosed space with
To Her Inconstant Lover To Her Inconstant Lover Isabella Whitney's 16th-century poem "To her Inconstant Lover" is the first in her first book "The Copy of a Letter, Lately Written in Meter by a Young Gentlewoman: to her Unconstant Lover" (1567). The speaker is Whitney herself, who is, as the title of the poem indicates, writing to her unfaithful, or inconstant lover. Whitney begins by telling her lover that she has learned he is going to be married, despite his trying this a secret, which the first line explains: "as close as you your wedding kept". Whitney alternates between speaking as the jilted lover,