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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
challenging
slow-paced
I definitely like Shakespeare's sonnets more than his plays
" Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving"
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving"
It was like reading his diary. Some were so good and others were mediocre. Overall I enjoyed it.
probably 5 stars I'm just too dumb to understand everything dshfhjasdhj
I always love his works. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate." (Sonnet 18)
challenging
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Poetry is obviously great because you can interpret it any way you want as long as you have evidence.
Some thoughts on these beautiful sonnets:
– Shakespeare's pretty confident that the men (man?) and women (woman?) he writes about will live on in history, and thus achieve a kind of immortality. To be fair, he's not wrong.
– It's very clear that plenty of modern authors have been inspired by some of Shakespeare's themes, but you can also see that he has in turn been influenced by his contemporaries, or they have influenced each other; I saw some John Donne in there.
– I'm interested in the process of creating these poems. I know that they have a specific order, but I wish I knew whether they were written in that order.
– Sometimes when Shakespeare's speaking to this young man, I really think that he is speaking about God, particularly in LXXII (more outright because it speaks of Eve,) XCVI, and CV. At the same time, he speaks of myth and monsters, like with his comparisons to Philomel in CII.
– I can read many of these as being about depression and trauma, but I wonder if that's more about me or about Shakespeare. Or maybe I'm confusing the speaker and the poet.
– He really likes to make puns on his own name. And he also makes references to his other works; I particularly saw connections to the Tempest, although that came out a little later. Shakespeare was winding up for the end, I think.
Some thoughts on these beautiful sonnets:
– Shakespeare's pretty confident that the men (man?) and women (woman?) he writes about will live on in history, and thus achieve a kind of immortality. To be fair, he's not wrong.
– It's very clear that plenty of modern authors have been inspired by some of Shakespeare's themes, but you can also see that he has in turn been influenced by his contemporaries, or they have influenced each other; I saw some John Donne in there.
– I'm interested in the process of creating these poems. I know that they have a specific order, but I wish I knew whether they were written in that order.
– Sometimes when Shakespeare's speaking to this young man, I really think that he is speaking about God, particularly in LXXII (more outright because it speaks of Eve,) XCVI, and CV. At the same time, he speaks of myth and monsters, like with his comparisons to Philomel in CII.
– I can read many of these as being about depression and trauma, but I wonder if that's more about me or about Shakespeare. Or maybe I'm confusing the speaker and the poet.
– He really likes to make puns on his own name. And he also makes references to his other works; I particularly saw connections to the Tempest, although that came out a little later. Shakespeare was winding up for the end, I think.
Read through these again this morning, amazing stuff.
#23: Un libro con más de 100 años.
Iba a hacer una reseña de este libro pero he perdido mis notas y ahora tengo que ver qué hago para recuperarlas o empezar desde cero.
Iba a hacer una reseña de este libro pero he perdido mis notas y ahora tengo que ver qué hago para recuperarlas o empezar desde cero.