April 23, 2008 - Wednesday
Current mood: fabulous
Yesterday, after the assembly talk, we were asked to stay back for a while by Ms Balan... She spoke something about William Shakespeares and we need to do some research on him...
After some research on him, I found out that the sonnets he wrote and the play he wrote were so profound... The famous plays that he wrote includes Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello and many others... The sonnets that he wrote were so profound that I do not even know what they meant until I saw the explanation of the sonnets...
In class today, we had to answer questions about him, his history, tragedies that he wrote... All his informations that our class provides help me gained a lot of knowledge of him... I am really sad that our badge could not study the tragedies wrote by William Shakespeares... Ms Balan let us watch a play of the combination of all the plays that Shakespeares wrote... They put it in a funny way which made our class laugh even though there were some which is supposed to be tragedies...
I have gained a lot through the activities and this is one of the sonnet that he wrote...
SONNET 75
So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found;
Now proud as an enjoyer and anon
Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure,
Now counting best to be with you alone,
Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure;
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight
And by and by clean starved for a look;
Possessing or pursuing no delight,
Save what is had or must from you be took.
Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,
Or gluttoning on all, or all away.
The explanation :
PARAPHRASE OF SONNET 75
As food is to the body so are you to my soul and mind,
Or as spring showers are to the ground;
And for the contentment you bring me I allow such inner strife
As the conflict between a miser and his money;
Who takes joy in his wealth, but soon
Fears that ruthless competitors will steal his treasure,
Now thinking it best to have you alone,
Then thinking that the world should see how happy I am;
At one moment wholly satisfied by feasting on your sight
And the next moment utterly starved for a look at you:
Having or seeking no pleasure
Except what you have given me or what I will demand.
And so I starve or feed to excess depending on the day,
Either gorging on you, or not having you at all.
Thats all....
