All's Well that Ends Well - Page 3

Originally posted by: delena90

Did you read both verses? Thought you guys might appreciate them both 😆

Originally posted by: sarbrathan

Don't know what grade you are BUT I learned Shakespeare in high school (grade 9-12) and I found it easy. People have found sparknotes helpful but I don't recommend it. Its analysis is very superficial! IF you are a reader than read the play, and if you are like me then watch the movie twice. I have only read A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet, MacBeth, and Hamlet. IF you need help for the last three let me know because I just did them (I'm in 2nd-year uni, so its been only 2-3 years since I did them). I have read a lot of his sonnets and they are relatively simple compared to the plays.

Honestly, Shakespeare is an overrated writer! I feel its us who overanalysis his writing. Romeo and Juliet is the stupidest love story I have EVER READ, SEEN (forced to watch the play for a field trip), OR WATCHED.

Originally posted by: sarbrathan

Don't know what grade you are BUT I learned Shakespeare in high school (grade 9-12) and I found it easy. People have found sparknotes helpful but I don't recommend it. Its analysis is very superficial! IF you are a reader than read the play, and if you are like me then watch the movie twice. I have only read A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet, MacBeth, and Hamlet. IF you need help for the last three let me know because I just did them (I'm in 2nd-year uni, so its been only 2-3 years since I did them). I have read a lot of his sonnets and they are relatively simple compared to the plays.

Honestly, Shakespeare is an overrated writer! I feel its us who overanalysis his writing. Romeo and Juliet is the stupidest love story I have EVER READ, SEEN (forced to watch the play for a field trip), OR WATCHED.

Haha I passed out of school many years ago.

Enjoy the verse for the context it's meant in 😊

Originally posted by: nautanki_anu

Yes I read both and understood and loved both😆

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Originally posted by: nautanki_anu

I'm also not too much into poetry. But from whatever I learnt in school and college, I liked all 3 Williams though (Shakespeare, Blake and Wordsworth). I liked Wordsworth's Daffodils.

But my all time fav is Leisure by WH Davies😃. I even remember parts of it:

What is this life full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stare when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to stare in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars like skies at night.

What is this life full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

So true isn't it?

Lovely and yes very true.

One of my favourite poems is daffodils, I remember the lines too -

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

My mum loves this poem.

Originally posted by: QueenOfMyCastle

She ain't in school.😉

Originally posted by: hsvs

@Rivs, are we sure about this? her not being in school? 😉😆

Another one of my favourites:

Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.

No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.

Will no one tell me what she sings?"
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?

Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o'er the sickle bending;"
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.

This is way out of my league.. I like your other posts better 😆

Originally posted by: delena90

Lovely and yes very true.

One of my favourite poems is daffodils, I remember the lines too -

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

My mum loves this poem.