Well, that's the point - it is a head trapped in a small space under twenty locks of water - disturbing, to be sure, but I'm not sure that it actually achieves what is conveyed in the original context from Venus and Adonis ;(posted 8657 days ago)What though the rose have prickles, yet 'tis pluck'd:
Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.
Sorry to swim against the fawning tide.........