the rollar coaster of feelings for the unit called shakespeare
"But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end."
-William Shakespeare
Those two lines just happened to be my favorite two lines I have come across yet in my Shakespeare readings. They are the ending lines in "Sonnet 30" and i believe they are the reasons for me having mixed feelings about the Sonnet. Unlike the class may believe, it was not the "Poem Ruiner's" interesting reading voice that made me change my mind about the poem, but it was that i realized the only reason I liked the poem to begin with was those last two lines. Those two were the best lines in the sonnet and just happened to be the note the sonnet ended on, so it left me feeling once again hopeful for poetry. Then I realized, after hearing the poem on a different day with a different state of mind, I really don't like this after all.
Maybe, like EM, my dislike in Shakespeare has come from way back when in fifth grade. I too suffered through that class that EM speaks of. Who knew a teacher could make Romeo and Juliet drag on with a class a fifth graders for months on end. It maybe a horrible exaggeration, and correct me if I'm wrong fellow classmate, but I believe we worked on that play for the entire year. Worked on it as in acted it out, read alone for homework then again allowed in class and filmed it. This is off topic but if you want to picture something funny picture me, Juliet and our dear friend from class that we caught sleeping today, as Romeo.
Maybe people around the world like me would enjoy Shakespeare better in small sonnets, rather than plays. Start small and work for the big picture will be my new approach. Then that way I might come across other sets of lines that I find promising such as the above stated.
-Riz
All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end."
-William Shakespeare
Those two lines just happened to be my favorite two lines I have come across yet in my Shakespeare readings. They are the ending lines in "Sonnet 30" and i believe they are the reasons for me having mixed feelings about the Sonnet. Unlike the class may believe, it was not the "Poem Ruiner's" interesting reading voice that made me change my mind about the poem, but it was that i realized the only reason I liked the poem to begin with was those last two lines. Those two were the best lines in the sonnet and just happened to be the note the sonnet ended on, so it left me feeling once again hopeful for poetry. Then I realized, after hearing the poem on a different day with a different state of mind, I really don't like this after all.
Maybe, like EM, my dislike in Shakespeare has come from way back when in fifth grade. I too suffered through that class that EM speaks of. Who knew a teacher could make Romeo and Juliet drag on with a class a fifth graders for months on end. It maybe a horrible exaggeration, and correct me if I'm wrong fellow classmate, but I believe we worked on that play for the entire year. Worked on it as in acted it out, read alone for homework then again allowed in class and filmed it. This is off topic but if you want to picture something funny picture me, Juliet and our dear friend from class that we caught sleeping today, as Romeo.
Maybe people around the world like me would enjoy Shakespeare better in small sonnets, rather than plays. Start small and work for the big picture will be my new approach. Then that way I might come across other sets of lines that I find promising such as the above stated.
-Riz
posted by sobereyedconclusions at
8:57 PM
1 Comments:
I'm pretty sure we did work on that play allllllll year (or at least it felt like that). You did forget to say that we had to memorize all of our lines too. I can actually still say mine (no joke, really). You also can't forget all of that quality time we spent reading the "Journals of Lewis and Clark". There's nothing like hearing about buffalo, rivers, and how cold/hungry/lost/excited they were every...single...day.
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