It has always amazed me how many different points of veiw Shakespeare has been able to write from. He was only one man (although critics have disputed otherwise), yet he has been able to express so many different emotions with such depth and clarity that one really does have to wonder what kind of experiences this man went through in his life. ( Read more... )

I've been completely swamped with work this week, and it doesn't help that I've been doing a million other things as well, such as moving out of my house, trying to keep up a social life, and figuring out a way to get all of my assignments done before I leave for the reef. Last week I wasn't feeling well and I didn't make it to the lecture or the ( Read more... )

Yea I agree with you Dyana. It was really interesting to see how something as minor as changing the ethnicity of the characters can impact the way the entire play is portrayed. As we mentioned in class, the first version had much more of a tribal feel and there was so much more anger and emotion expressed by the characters. I agree that the ( Read more... )

Cute dog, by the way ( Read more... )

In our tutorial on Tuesday, I have to say that at first I was not very impressed with Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet. At first read, I thought it was a bit whiney and repetative, but then Neil (I don't know if that's how he spells his name..oh well) re-read it to me out loud in the way that he interpreted it. When he did this, I suddenly ( Read more... )

I'm really surprised that it took almost an hour to dissect one of Shakespeare's sonnets. I probably shouldn't be because obviously it's Shakespeare that we're talking about, but honestly I never realized just how many meanings one little sonnet can hold and how many ways it can be interpreted. If I may, I'd like to compare these types of sonnets ( Read more... )

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In our lecture yesterday we didn't really get to talk much about text in the Victorian era, but we did get into a very interesting discussion about political apathy among the student-aged people these days. I actually think that there are so many people who are apathetic and they aren't necessarily school-aged people. As interesting as it was to ( Read more... )

Sonnet 30
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought ( Read more... )