As an English major the first three should be fun, (and mulit-media authoring, with a focus on web authoring--doesn't that sound a lot like blogging? Got it covered! I actually have to make a web published argumentative site as a project) and the other two are basically history and the study of people--both things I love (did I mention last time I was in school I intended to get a history minor--now it's all about getting the degree done as quickly as possible!).
Shakespeare is the only on campus class I am taking and last night was the first class. As the teacher was giving a historical background to the world culture of the time, (mainly the 16th century) I was all kinds of excited. I love this stuff: reign of the Tudors, Queen Elizabeth, rise of protestantism, Early Modernism and the age of scientific discovery. . . forget 120 thousand people crammed into one square mile, sewage running in the streets and a pervasive aversion to baths!) I was all enthralled--so absorbed I didn't even take notes--I figured I sort of had this stuff covered. . .
. . . Then we start picking apart one of Shakespeare's sonnets. I have had a decent amount of exposure to Shakespeare, but good grief that man is wordy. All flowery prose and nearly indecipherable analogies. But guess what?--I love it!
Seriously, what woman would not want to hear:
| Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, |
| Some in their wealth, some in their bodies' force, |
| Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill, |
| Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse; |
| And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure, |
| Wherein it finds a joy above the rest: |
| But these particulars are not my measure; |
| All these I better in one general best. |
| Thy love is better than high birth to me, |
| Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' cost, |
| Of more delight than hawks or horses be; |
| And having thee, of all men's pride I boast: |
| Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take |
| All this away and me most wretched make. |
Sure school is a lot of work--loads of reading, hours of writing, and very time consuming, and expensive these day. . . but is supposed to be fun?
8 comments:
Yea! I finally found a chance to look up your blog. I am glad we can keep in touch this way too. How fast the time has past that we would giggle through sleepovers at each others houses! One day our girls need to meet and enjoy how much fun cousins (even distant ones) can be.
I am excited for you to be back in school. It is funny that in younger days of life all we want is to be out of school and now we all crave that learning and enrichment.
Sorry for the long "comment". And you thought Shakespeare was wordy!
Perhaps he was not wordy compared to many of his contemporaries, but many writers of his ear were notoriously flowery--himself included in my opinion. Though he certainly has many memorably pithy lines as well!
I mean era, not ear!
Good luck with your classes. I was never very good at dissecting those stories but you, being an English major, must be!
Good luck with school! I'm looking forward to the day when the boys are a little older and I can take some classes for fun or finish my BS (I was double-majoring when we got married and just wanted to be done so I only finished the BA). I am one of those crazy people that has always enjoyed school.
i start back tomorrow---wasn't really looking forward to it, but after reading this, I think it WILL actually be nice to get back in. I love a good intellectual challenge!
And look at you!--already thinking Masters! Awesome!
Wishing you nothing but A's my friend :)
I would want to hear that. You have to hand it to the man, he knew what to say.
My eyes glaze over when I read that stuff...is that bad to say??? Now when you and Jennifer P are published, I demand the first autographed book.
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