Thursday, April 12, 2007

This sounds so pretty!

As I was reading the rest of act one I began to
realize how pretty it sounded and how
good Shakespeare really was with words.
And how romantic the play really is.
My favorite passage was when Romeo
was describing love.

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Here's much to do with hate but more with love.

Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,

O anything of nothing first created!

O heavy lightness, serious vanity,

Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
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Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,

Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!

This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
At first this does not make very much sense,
but when I looked it up on sparknotes it sounded
so pretty.
This fight has a lot to do with hatred,
but it has more to do with love. O brawling love!
O loving hate! Love that comes from nothing!
Sad happiness! Serious foolishness!
Beautiful things muddled together into an ugly mess!
Love is heavy and light, bright and dark,
hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake
—it's everything except what it is! This is the love
I feel, though no one loves me back.
I love how he tries to describe love and
then he says that it is every thing,
but love.
I am very greatful that Mrs. James showed
us the sparknotes wedsite and would
incurrage you, if you have not already, to
take a look at them because they really
helped my understand better.

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