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Shakespeare
Posted by: Prose ()
Date: December 17, 2007 07:12AM

I love Shakespeare. I thought it might be fun if we could all contribute our favorite passages. Then, we could analyze, interpret, etc. Allow our minds to explore and seek enrichment as we study the words of this great man. This will be great fun... so, don't be shy. There are no wrong answers. That is the beauty of this exercise. OK??

I'll go first.


As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st,
In one of thine, from that which thou departest;
And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow'st,
Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest,
Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase;
Without this folly, age, and cold decay:
If all were minded so, the times should cease
And threescore year would make the world away.
Let those whom nature hath not made for store,
Harsh, featureless, and rude, barrenly perish:
Look, whom she best endow'd, she gave thee more;
Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:
She carv'd thee for her seal, and meant thereby,
Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.
--William Shakespeare

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Re: Shakespeare
Posted by: The Bard ()
Date: December 17, 2007 07:40AM

Thank you, Prose.
That passage was always a favorite of mine.
Here's one which I'm sure you'll recognize immediately.



Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,

In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:

Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place

With beauty's treasure ere it be self-kill'd.

That use is not forbidden usury,

Which happies those that pay the willing loan;

That's for thy self to breed another thee,

Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;

Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,

If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee:

Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,

Leaving thee living in posterity?

Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair

To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.

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Re: Shakespeare
Posted by: CheekyMonkey ()
Date: December 17, 2007 08:26AM

...and this is a topic of interest to Fairfax County because...

Seriously, I love the bard, too, but isn't there a We Love Shakespeare blog that you can post this on?

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Re: Shakespeare
Posted by: Romeo ()
Date: December 17, 2007 09:03AM

and this is a topic of interest to Fairfax County because...


Look more closely at the above passage. Hidden in those majestic words is a reference to our modern western civilization. Northern Virginia is a good example of the excess, waste and lack of civility, rampant in the western world.
Shakespeare was a seer, a British Nostradamus, if you will. Can't let those frogs see into the future alone. God only knows how they'll muck it up. (Maybe we need a thread on Nostradamus.)

Anyway, to make a long story short, Shakespeare is all about NOVA.

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Re: Shakespeare
Posted by: My muse ()
Date: December 17, 2007 09:38AM

This is MY favorite.



How can my muse want subject to invent,

While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse

Thine own sweet argument, too excellent

For every vulgar paper to rehearse?

O! give thy self the thanks, if aught in me

Worthy perusal stand against thy sight;

For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,

When thou thy self dost give invention light?

Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth

Than those old nine which rhymers invocate;

And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth

Eternal numbers to outlive long date.

If my slight muse do please these curious days

The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise.

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Re: Shakespeare
Posted by: Understand ()
Date: December 17, 2007 10:46AM

I never quite understood what that actually meant. Can anybody out there help me?

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Re: Shakespeare
Posted by: Rodrigo ()
Date: December 17, 2007 11:11AM

I'm bringing out the big guns

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm,
this England.

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Re: Shakespeare
Posted by: RESton Peace ()
Date: December 17, 2007 11:14AM

the temp agency or the grocery store or whatever crap place Meade is working for this week must have told him to stay the fuck home... so we get to suffer.

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Re: Shakespeare
Posted by: Books Are Cool ()
Date: December 17, 2007 11:18AM

TO:

RESton Peace,

Thank you for that interesting interpretation. But, the name, Meade, escapes me. Could you expand on this for me.

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