Midway through Shakespeare's Plays
by
James Shammas
(Age: 44)
copyright 02-23-2006
Age Rating: 10 to 127
You get the gist: the play within the play,
The switching of roles and gender bending,
The multiple disguises, the long flight
Somewhere, the quick longed-for getting back;
To hear and overhear, from there to here,
All that you've thought and all that you've felt
Boiled down to one comic stunt-- common,
Majestic and sublime, as ordinary
As the midday mind or the twilight hour
When one can finally ask and comprehend
The joyous necessity-- humble and human--
The responsibility of how and why;
To really sit and stick with it, even
Lost midway in once upon a time. Yes:
To sit and smile with fiend and friend--
Not once or twice, but again and again--
Knowing, all along, it is as it should be:
You still you and me still me,
Until-- glancing past centuries-- he reads you:
All that you've been and all that you are,
Where you will go and all else you can be.
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I like this one better than Hamlet. It held me a lot better as I read it and it actually had a kind of old school rap feel to it. I know I would've understood the gist of it better if I wasn't so tired right now, but it feels a little like you're comparing friendships to shakespearean plays, how everyone's complex and has many faces and how you'll go back and forth loving and hating, and in the end after all the drama's done you find you really know each other. 'Course, I'm trying to use one of my own friendships as Cliff's Notes here and I could be way off. But even so, this was kinda fun. And almost made me wanna dance.
I had a wonderful time tripping and stumbling across your great imagery and metaphors, but it was great to get away from the fast-paced world and find a friend who knows me through and through, becaue I am human nature, as we all are. I hope I got the gist of it.
I don't know how you continue to get better and better with each write, but you do. My best times here are spent with your poetry.
Just because we know the end doesn't mean we don't have to do the journey there. Sometimes we wish we knew what it was all for. I think we would be dissapointed. I think it's whatever we need to believe in to get us there. Without hope, you have no ending, no, final destination. What are you afraid of? Then hope for that. I love it. Great write, good job, thank you
As usual you write with great insight.
I grew up with his plays, mother was an ardent fan.
It's a pity more people don't read him. His work stands the test of time.
Cutting through the 'Olde English', one can see that man has not changed much over the centuries, just the technology. Bigger bombs and guns.
Brian.
Welcome !
