Thursday, November 5, 2009

Shakespeare who?

Hi everyone! I was just assigned to write a blog from another person's perspective. I chose user M.E.M. Her name is Megan and she is one of the funniest people I have ever met in school. Her writing is informal, and she's not afraid of using curse words. Since I already talked about my weekend in that blog, I've decided I will talk about something else in this one...
In English class we are reading "Taming of the Shrew." Thank God for "10 Things I Hate About You" or I would be lost while reading the play. Shakespeare's who we're focusing on. The only things I know about Shakespeare are that he's no longer alive, and he wrote about love in almost every single play he's created. In class, we must memorize one of his sonnets, and I don't know if you have noticed, but his sonnets are usually titled by numbers and not by names. I chose Sonnet 27 and it goes something like this: Weary with toil I haste me to my bed, the dear repose for limbs with travel tired. But then begins a journey in my head, to work my mind when body's work expired... and that is all I can remember so far. http://plagiarist.com/poetry/925/ Thankfully, the due date has been postponed until Tuesday (Oct. 10) and it's marvelous, since memorizing a poem/sonnet is not my specialty. We also have to create an eight page book, summarizing the sonnet and illustrating what it looks like in our minds. I'm also not an artist. You tell me to draw a bird, and I'll draw a black V with a blue background: there's the bird, and a sky. What I'm really trying to say is, I'm in no rush to get this sonnet project done. Shakespeare is a bit confusing; we still praise his words, though I cannot understand them without a translation. Wish me luck. Don't get me wrong, Mr. Shakespeare, you are a fantastic writer, just try using spell check next time on Word Document... I believe "art' should be "are." ;)

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