Shade In The Mournful Fields By Acheron
The phrase is a literary allusion drawn from Greek mythology, where Acheron is the river of woes and shade is the spirit of the dead. Acheron is one of the five infernal rivers in the Greek underworld representing sorrow and pain. Mournful Fields often refers to Asphodel Meadows or area within Hades where spirits roam. The image invoked a sense of tragic isolation and death-like despair foreshadowing the ruin of the character Boldwood in 34th Chapter of Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.