05-10-2014, 08:44 AM
Edward,
Can I read Shakespeare and enjoy him. Yes, after several years study I can read Shakespeare in the original and understand what he means, I do so fairly frequent as I have a copy of the original folio. Can the average person, who has not foolishly wasted his time as I have enjoy Shakespeare in the original, let alone understand him. I think not. As for Keats these days I quickly weary of him. I understand what you are saying because I most closely align with the New Critic school myself. What Keats tells me instantly is when he is from, plus I have always found Keats fairly full of affectation. This is true for any of the later three Romantics (Shelly, Byron, and Keats), but it seems especially true of Keats. When I first started learning poetry, I wrote like the Romantics, because that was who I was studying. However, I learned that to write that way was generally a distraction to the reader, or so the few who were willing to read what I had read told me...and told...well, you get the picture.
Today I speaketh not in inversion my fine fellow, nor talketh I in affected manner, why then prithee shouldest I write thusly, if I speaketh and mine readers speaketh not the same? Confusion of a needless variety is caused to this overheated globe that siteth atop mine shoulders.
Faireth thee well in thine period friend (with thou rapidly dwindling population), and I wilst faireth well in mine.
Sincerely, thou bosom friend,
dale, the terse
Can I read Shakespeare and enjoy him. Yes, after several years study I can read Shakespeare in the original and understand what he means, I do so fairly frequent as I have a copy of the original folio. Can the average person, who has not foolishly wasted his time as I have enjoy Shakespeare in the original, let alone understand him. I think not. As for Keats these days I quickly weary of him. I understand what you are saying because I most closely align with the New Critic school myself. What Keats tells me instantly is when he is from, plus I have always found Keats fairly full of affectation. This is true for any of the later three Romantics (Shelly, Byron, and Keats), but it seems especially true of Keats. When I first started learning poetry, I wrote like the Romantics, because that was who I was studying. However, I learned that to write that way was generally a distraction to the reader, or so the few who were willing to read what I had read told me...and told...well, you get the picture.
Today I speaketh not in inversion my fine fellow, nor talketh I in affected manner, why then prithee shouldest I write thusly, if I speaketh and mine readers speaketh not the same? Confusion of a needless variety is caused to this overheated globe that siteth atop mine shoulders.
Faireth thee well in thine period friend (with thou rapidly dwindling population), and I wilst faireth well in mine.
Sincerely, thou bosom friend,
dale, the terse
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.