It depicts Ophelia, a character in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before drowning in a river in Denmark. Ofelia has been making wildflower wreaths. She climbs a willow tree overhanging a stream to hang some of its branches, and a branch breaks under her. She stands in the water singing songs, as if unaware of her danger ("incapable of her own anguish"). Her clothes, trapping the air, allowed her to remain temporarily afloat ("Her clothes spread out, / And, like a siren, for a while they sustained her.") "But eventually, her clothes, heavy with water, pulled the poor thing from her melodious 'down' to her muddy death". Ophelia's death has been praised as one of the most poetically written death scenes in literature.
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