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Originally posted by Rosie Posie Burrows:
Shakespeare's the worst. I'm just trying to enjoy the play and see the deeper meaning of it at the same time, but we're made to analyse every little phrase, underline words we don't know the exact meaning of, blah blah blah. What does it matter, as long as we get the basic gist of the sentence?
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If your teacher were intelligent and sensitive, she would bring you to the theater first (or at least show you a movie version of the play), to show you how entertaining Shakespeare can be. And
then, you would dig deeper into the language. Shakespeare was a master of language, and there are treasures of hidden meaning, puns, double entendre and other subtle twists in his play that you wouldn't be able to enjoy just by getting the basic gist of the sentence. Tolkien can be like that too, sometimes.
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Why can't poets just tell it like it is, instead of giving us all this hard work? [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]
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I sympathize, I really do. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] But the "hard work" is called poetry. And if you work hard enough, you might even enjoy it. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]