Poetry Anthology

Poetry Anthology:Lyrical and Narrative poems.

  The Hind

Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,

 But as for me, helas! I may no more.
 The vain travail hath wearied me so sore,
 I am of them that furthest come behind.
 Yet may I, by no means, my wearied mind
 Draw from the deer;but as the fleeth afore
 Fainting I follow I leave off therefore ,
 Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,
As well as I, may spend his time in vain;
And graven with diamonds in letter plain
There is written, her fair neck round about,
 Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,
 And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.
 (Sir Thomas Wyatt)











 Oh,Oh you will be sorry for that word!

 Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
 Was is my enemy or my friend I heard,
 "what a big book for such a little head!"
 Come, I will show you now my newest hat,
 And you may watch me purse my mouth and prink!

Oh I shall love you still, and all of that.
I never again shall tell you what I think.
 I shall be sweet and crafty, soft and sly;
You will not catch me reading any more:
 I shall be called a wife to pattern by;
And some day when you knock and push the door,
Some sane day, not too bright and not too stormy,
I shall be gone, and you may whistle for me.
( Edna St. Vicent Millay)






The Wife of Bath's Tale (extract)
Now it so happened, I began to say,
Long, long ago in good King Arthur's day,
There was a knight who was a lusty liver.
One day as he came riding from the river
He saw a maiden walking all forlorn
Ahead of him, alone as she was born.
And of that maiden, spite of all she said,
By very force he took her maidenhead.
This act of violence made such a stir,
So much petitioning to the king for her,
That he condemned the knight to lose his head
By course of law. He was as good as dead
(It seems that then the satutes took that view)
But that the queen, and other ladies too,
Implored the king to exercise his grace
So ceasellessly, he gave the queen the case
And granted her his life, and she could choose
Whether to show mercy or refuse.


I've chosen these poems because I think that they show different women being powerful so as to be and do whatever they want with men and with their lives.
The first woman is very coquette and encourages men to follow her because she enjoys her power over men and enjoys the way men try to get her love. She can do with them whatever she wants. That's why I've chosen that picture as it clearly shows a coquette women being followed by men.
The second woman enjoys reading and she will keep on doing it eventhough her husband doesn't want her to read. She is strong enough to confront with her husband and make him clear that she will pretend to be what he asks her to be but she will not stop reading. I've chosen these pictures because they show a woman with her husband (may be in a party) showing that they are a very happy couple, and then the other picture a woman alone reading and enjoying this activity.
The third woman is a queen and it is shown that  she has power on the king as he let her choose what to do with the knight. I like this  picture as it can represent the ladies and the queen dealing with the Knigth's case.

Post 3: After reading the whole play.

I have finished reading the play and I really liked it! The most important theme in this play is marriage but the ideas of honour and public shaming are very important too.
 I’ve chosen these lines as these shows how Claudio denounces Hero publicly as he thinks he has been betrayed and he is damaging Hero’s reputation.
 O Hero,what a Hero hadst thou been, If half thy outward graces had been placed, About thy thoughts and councels of thy heart! But fare three well, most foul, most fair; farewell Thou pure impiety, and impious purity! For three I’ll lock up all the gates of love And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang, To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm, And never shall it more be gracious.
 (Act Four, Scene Three)
 As I said before, here Claudio is telling everyone that Hero has been unfaithful to him and by doing this Claudio is publicly asserting that Hero is not a woman to be trusted and this is a shame not only to Hero but also to her family.
 The word “ado” means fuss or trouble. So it can be said that this title is suitable as the play is about a lot of fuss over nothing. As the Longman Dictionary explained, people sometimes use the expression “ Much Ado About Nothing” as a phrase to describe a situation in which there has been a lot of excitement about something that is not really important.
 What surprised me most were Beatrice’s attitudes. I really like the fact that a woman speaks her mind and Beatrice is also very intelligent to mock other people and play with words almost all the time.
 The play made me think about how misunderstanding and impulsiveness can make people believe and assure that something happened so easily and sometimes without proof.
 If I got the chance I would like to ask Shakespeare if any of his life experiences affect his work, as I’ve seen ”Shakespeare in love” I have that doubt

Post 1: Before reading

Much Ado About Nothing
I found really interesting the description of the theatre and how the audience was distributed. The distribution is different from the one we have now as the nearer to the stage you are the more expensive the tickets are.What's more you have to be in the open air even though you pay more to see the show and as it is shown in the video, people who pay only one penny was closer to the stage and in the open air. I did not like to learn the fact that people enjoyed going to see how a bear was attacked by dogs and that this was a way of entertainment. Much Ado About Nothing-Film-Tv play After watching both versions of the play I think that the trailer shows that the language used is not exactly the one used in the book, while the Tv play used the same words as the original play. May be as the movie is more recent than the tv play the language was needed to be changed as some expressions were really difficult. I think the protagonists will be Beatrice and Benedick.Tough they seem to hate each other (after wathcing the trailer my opinion changed) they will love each other at the end.