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…so an examination of compositional strategies Sh used in his Sonnets to give them the appearance of depth. Cribbed from the introduction (p. 19-21, 38) of the Art of Sh’s Sonnets by Helen Vendler. 1. TEMPORAL. The establishment of several retreating “panels” of time, representing episodes or epochs in the speaker’s past, gives him a continuous, [...] …that moment in conversation and interaction when a lot is being said, though nothing is being said. Pause and silence. There, where being and empathy begins and the acting is done. The razor’s edge that cuts through the play as known narrative to the play as it re-creates itself again. The players their text memorised, [...] Assist ye extempore gods of rime for I am sure i shall turn sonnets! So go through the first 17 sonnets and look for the sprung lines. (in the quarto facsimile or a sparsely edited version) There are an awful lot of examples. Almost every sonnet! Is this coz [...] …i thought i’d made it up but no it exists in the urban dictionary. As does blography. Either way it exists! If you can’t make the show tomorrow night here’s some content: The purpose of this show is to see this Quarto of Sonnets by William Shakespeare as a whole, which is apparently MORE than the sum [...] …asked to provide some info for the paper i sat down to enumerate the reasons. Basically they appeal to my higher nature. I have become a more ethical and moral person by holding up the imperfect mirror the sonnets represent. Ethics shape the personality and character. In my case as slutty as the Mistress and as [...] The following words are from Robert Durling, recent English translator of Petrarch. Petrach’s themes are traditional, his treatment of them profoundly original. From Propertius, Ovid, the Troubadors, the Roman de la Rose, the Sicilians, the dolce style novo, Dante, Cino da Pistoia there comes to him a repertoire of situations, technical vocabulary, images, structures. Love at first sight, [...] I’m busy putting together a thesaurus of the sonnets and these thoughts arise. The classifications follow those of Marvin Spevack’s Shakespeare Thesaurus. Classifying is box-making. But the questions always remain: If a word is a box, association is [...] The Scots are in Toon for a spot of fitba. I haven’t seen so much tartan in a while and now we’re festooned with it. Preamble to the day’s matter. It starts with a joke discovered while prepping for a corporate gig. There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand [...] Iambicity .- .- .- .- .-
Dat wil zeggen, in da groove, in da groove.
These 10 syllables are an iambic line in Dinglish.
Iambicity is what was happening when Shakespeare wrote his Sonnets. Everyone was doing it or having it done for them. Sprinkle a little sugar on the ink [...] A line of a sonnet appears as a measured unit 10 syllables long, alternating unstressed stressed syllables. This inner measure or metre, allows us to hear the line’s inner relationship. Our ear follows the pattern that is created, or deviated from, through a succession of lines. Four lines is known as a quatrain, which allows us [...] |
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