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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
I do enjoy Shakespeare and his masterful use of language.
I really haven't read Shakespeare's sonnets in any consistent way since high school (where I read less than twenty and memorized two). It was fascinating to read all 154 from first to last as a whole connected work. One really gets a sense that English is a tool which almost all of us use, many often play with, but only Shakespeare fully owned. The Bard could bend a word, fit infinity in a couplet, and drop the whole universe on a period.
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I feel terrible for giving something by WILLIAM FRIGGIN' SHAKESPEARE anything less than five stars, but I just ain't feelin' it with his sonnets. Now, Shakespeare's plays are always a treat when I get myself in the proper mindset for Elizabethan English, but with these sonnets I feel like I'm chipping at concrete with a pickax. I know there are hidden meanings and philosophical musings on love, friendship, time, and death under there...but I just can't get at it! I honestly feel like an idiot after reading this, because I just can't penetrate that concrete, and feeling like an idiot after reading a book because you "didn't get it" is not a pleasant feeling.
Maybe I'm just not in the proper Elizabethan English mindset. Maybe it's because I just don't really read poetry for "fun" very often, so this wouldn't grab me in the same way that a novel or a play might. Either way, I'll set this book aside for now and give it some time before I start reading it again. I know there's good stuff in there.
I feel terrible for giving something by WILLIAM FRIGGIN' SHAKESPEARE anything less than five stars, but I just ain't feelin' it with his sonnets. Now, Shakespeare's plays are always a treat when I get myself in the proper mindset for Elizabethan English, but with these sonnets I feel like I'm chipping at concrete with a pickax. I know there are hidden meanings and philosophical musings on love, friendship, time, and death under there...but I just can't get at it! I honestly feel like an idiot after reading this, because I just can't penetrate that concrete, and feeling like an idiot after reading a book because you "didn't get it" is not a pleasant feeling.
Maybe I'm just not in the proper Elizabethan English mindset. Maybe it's because I just don't really read poetry for "fun" very often, so this wouldn't grab me in the same way that a novel or a play might. Either way, I'll set this book aside for now and give it some time before I start reading it again. I know there's good stuff in there.
I liked some of them. Read for my Shakespeare class. Review to come.
Not a fan of Shakespeare's sonnets think I'll stick with the plays
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Strong character development:
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Diverse cast of characters:
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