Posted on 07/22/2017 2:28:27 AM PDT by C19fan
What else can I say
Everyone is gay
Why could Sonnet 27 not be about a woman?
First of all, the general mood of the poem is one of ghastliness and horror. If he has a fixation on a woman, she's not a very attractive one.
As he is weary and tired, when his thought s turn to this person, a journey begins in his head and works his mind, as his weary limbs have been worked.
His thoughts of this person keep his drooping eyelids open wide looking on darkness which the blind do see. This is hardly gazing on someone or something pleasant and comforting. In fact, this person is like a jewel hung in ghastly night, which fascinates and horrifies him at the same time.
It seems to me that Shakespeare is describing a fixation that haunts and horrifies him but also gives him pleasure, like an addiction. If he's addicted to a woman, she must be a gorgon or something.
I don't know, but it seems more like a homosexual fetish than anything else, something to which he cannot keep his mind from going to but which horrifies him also. Drugs? Alcohol? I don't think so. I think it's some kind of fetish. And though he can't resist it, he also doesn't like it.
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Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_sonnets#Fair_Youth
I guess you have to read it in context. I will keep an open mind.
Don’t have much of a sense of humor, do you? Know anything about “Monty Python’’ I suppose? That was the “Bruce’’ reference. Jeez.
OLIVER
Good Monsieur Charles, what’s the new news at the
new court?
CHARLES
There’s no news at the court, sir, but the old news.... —”As You Like It” I.1
Yes and Jesus was BLACK. These people never quit.
One sure sign of a playwright is how he’s drawn by the critics of his time, and Shakespeare was roundly criticized by the critics of his.
His work may well have been lost if not for the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell, who had known and worked with Shakespeare, and had prepared 36 of his plays for the First Folio edition, which was dedicated and embellished by two poems of the playwright Ben Johnson, who was certainly known to have existed, and in which Shakespeare’s name was mentioned in both.
Probably my favorite biography of him is “Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare” by Stephen Greenblatt (2004)
Caesar Biggus Dickus?
The man had extensive political and military experience across the breadth of cultures and territories that would someday be called Europe. Size is over rated. Maybe he was a cunning linguist?
That’s my assumption.
Have of all the dead throughout time may have been gay. Or maybe not.
Have = Half ...but you probably figured it out...carry on.
Captain Crunch may have been gay.
Definitive post!
I thought it was! Maybe SB was showing how messed up mentally the director is.
I’m open minded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_27#Analysis
Analysis
Sonnet 27 is part of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards another Man. Sonnet 27, when written using modern spelling, is Shakespeare’s only pangrammic sonnet. It forms a diptych with Sonnet 28 which continues it.
For another of Shakespeare’s sonnets dealing with night, sleep, and dreams see Sonnet 43.
Though Christopher Marlowe, now there was a flamer.
Since it’s Wikipedia’s “analysis”, I consider it worthless.
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