A class where we finally talk about the whole soliloquy, with which I am obsessed, in which Macbeth calls or Seyton and considers how his way of life is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf." We get there by means of Sonnet 12, but that means talking about the sonnets: first the nature of sonnet sequences from Petrarch through Wyatt to Sidney and Shakespeare, then of course (via Wyatt) about Tottel's miscellany, and then a discussion of Sonnet 73 and its echoes of Macbeth's soliloquy, and ultimately about the nature of interruption, here as well as in Lear:
Prithee, go in thyself: seek thine own ease:
This tempest will not give me leave to ponder
On things would hurt me more. But I'll go in.
To the Fool
In, boy; go first. You houseless poverty,--
Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.
Fool goes in
Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these?
Macbeth interrupts himself to call for his last loyal servant; Lear to dismiss him.
A day that turned out to be an intro to Paradise Lost (Episode 10)
Different sorts of stresses (Episode 9)
What all poems are always about; ”We are Seven” (Episode 8)
More on lines
What makes a line?
Rhyme. And dialogue -- alternation and conflict in ballads
Rhyme: Making the Arbitrary Make Sense
More on rhyme and meter
some more on ”b o d y” and then on Alice Notley’s ”The Comfort”
First episode of Poetry: A Basic Course:James Merrill’s
Advanced Shakespeare 28, Friday May 1 2020--LAST CLASS. Dolabella and Cleopatra's dream
Advanced Shakespeare 27 April 30 2020 -- The Death of Antony
Advanced Shakespeare 26, Tuesday April 28 2020: Act IV and Antony's Extravagance
Advanced Shakespeare 25, Friday April 24, 2020: Act III concluded: Knowing Antony and knowing Cleoipatra
Advanced Shakespeare 24, Tuesday April 21, 2020: Act III continued: Antony profuse wastefulness
Advanced Shakespeare 23 Friday April 17 2020 -- dramatic perspectives
Bonus aria on Wittgenstein
Advanced Shakespeare 22 Tuesday 4/14/20 Leaders and advisors and news management
Advanced Shakespeare 21 Friday 4/3/2020 Messengers
Advanced Shakespeare 20 Tuesday 3-31-20 She did make defect perfection (Continuing Act II)
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