The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0252 Wednesday, 20 May 2009
[1] From: Bob Grumman <
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Date: Monday, 18 May 2009 16:23:59 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 20.0239 A Shakespeare-Related Visual Poem of Mine
[2] From: Bill Blanton <
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Date: Tuesday, 19 May 2009 11:38:47 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 20.0239 A Shakespeare-Related Visual Poem of Mine
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From: Bob Grumman <
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Date: Monday, 18 May 2009 16:23:59 -0500
Subject: 20.0239 A Shakespeare-Related Visual Poem of Mine
Comment: Re: SHK 20.0239 A Shakespeare-Related Visual Poem of Mine
>I'd like to be able to add, to "Summer," "Thou art more lovely and more
>temperate," but another time: today's lease hath all too short a date.
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>Nancy Charlton
Not sure what you mean, Nancy. Do you mean, that line should be back in
the poem? I have ideas for variations, but feel the line is there even
though not shown. The whole original is there. As for JD's three
instances of "jicama," I take them to mean, "a majic, a majic, a majic,"
but would welcome alternative interpretations. Anyway, thanks for saying
something.
-- Bob
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From: Bill Blanton <
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Date: Tuesday, 19 May 2009 11:38:47 -0500
Subject: 20.0239 A Shakespeare-Related Visual Poem of Mine
Comment: Re: SHK 20.0239 A Shakespeare-Related Visual Poem of Mine
Dear Bob:
I like it very much. At a later point, I would hope that you would let
us know what you had in mind when you composed this visual poem. But
you, no doubt, would first prefer to know what those who read this forum
think about it.
I am not an English Lit person, or even very knowledgeable about
Shakespeare (except for The Merchant of Venice, but that's another story
for another time). However, from what little I've read of Literary
Theory, there appears to be some doubt that you, in fact, composed this
poem. The zeitgeist did it. Indeed, no one can even be sure that you are
you or that there even is a you. We must find some obscure incident from
the recesses of what we can call history, and, piece by piece, construct
what we have already concluded the zeitgeist intended (but without using
the word intended). But I digress.
I love the pun on summit/sonnet. I feel like I'm looking down from a height.
I sense that this poem compares life to a summer's day. It may start out
temperate. But then the windes of heaven might visit sum of our faces
roughly. Sum are summer and sum are not. In fall, o what a falling off
there is. Winter brings our discontent. Our little life is rounded with
a sleepe, and the full summe of us is sum of nothing.
However, that interpretation seems a bit bleak; perhaps my
anti-depression meds have not kicked in yet. Sum one in a sunnier frame
of mind might provide a cheerier perspective.
I hope JD recovers soon from the hiccups, and that Nancy renews her lease.
Regards,
Bill Blanton
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