Friday, May 19, 2006

Shakespeare...pro-life?

For my graduation I got such a cool gift from the Guesses, this...



...so I have been veraciously reading them. And I discovered something, Shakespeare was pro-marriage and pro-life. Just take a look at his 3rd and 9th sonnets.

3 Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest/ Now is the time that face should form another,/ Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,/ Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother./ For where is she so fair whose uneared womb/ Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?/ Or who is he so fond will be the tomb/ Of his self-love to stop posterity?/ Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee/ Calls back the lovely April of her prime;/ So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,/ Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time./ But if thou live rememb'red not to be,/ Die single and thine image dies with thee.

9 Is it for fear to wet a Widow's eye/ That thou consum'st thyself in single life?/ Ah, if thou issueless shalt hap to die,/ The world will wail thee like a makeless wife;/ The world will be thy widow and still weep,/ That thou no form of thee hast left behind,/ When every private widow may well keep,/ By children's eyes, her husband's shape in mind./ Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend,/ Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;/ But beauty's waste hath in the world an end,/ And kept unused, the user so destroys it:/ No love toward others in that bosom sits/ That on himself such murd'rous shame commits.

5 Comments:

At 9:45 PM, Blogger Androphenese said...

cool bground...

 
At 7:25 PM, Blogger Androphenese said...

that is one sweet name you got there, el dorko mcgeeko!

 
At 11:23 PM, Blogger Katie! said...

you found me!

 
At 12:39 AM, Blogger Androphenese said...

tyler. you need to post on the blog. thats what you do on a blog. you post.

 
At 10:30 PM, Blogger Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band said...

Bro, back off. It's not like you post all the time. In fact, you haven't really been on posting high either.

 

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