• You are currently viewing our forum as a guest, which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community, you will have access to additional post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), view blogs, respond to polls, upload content, and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free, so please join our community today! Just click here to register. You should turn your Ad Blocker off for this site or certain features may not work properly. If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us by clicking here.

The Shakespearean English Thread [Random]

Anentropic IxTx

New member
Joined
Dec 27, 2008
Messages
268
MBTI Type
INTP
Enneagram
5
Whatever comes to mind you can write here
As long as it's in iambic penta-
meter it will be accepted because
More pathetic than mine it cannot be.
 

Synarch

Once Was
Joined
Oct 14, 2008
Messages
8,445
MBTI Type
ENTP
Only an INTP would come up with such a thread. There's probably one person on here who is really into the topic and they probably haven't spoken to another human being in 4-6 days. :)
 

Salomé

meh
Joined
Sep 25, 2008
Messages
10,527
MBTI Type
INTP
Enneagram
5w4
Instinctual Variant
sx/sp
Synarch's bright mask hath slipped and doth reveal
A cynical and dark individual.
 

ragashree

Reason vs Being
Joined
Nov 3, 2008
Messages
1,770
MBTI Type
Mine
Enneagram
1w9
I'd like to clarify: Are you requesting a poem about Shakespeare; a poem in Iambic Pentameter; anything written in Iambic Pentameter, regardless of whether or not it can be rightfully classified as a poem; something, poem or not, in Iambic Pentameter (or not) posessing something that you would otherwise classify as Shakesperean features; smething about Shakespeare ditto; or something else entirely, which in my current highly intoxicated state I have failed to properly appreciate? Or can it be any combination of the foregoing? (which I would prefer because the challenge of writing it would be more fun ;))

Maybe I have been misled by the title of the thread, as the use of Iambic Pentameter is scarcely restricted to good ole Will or the era in which he wrote, nor did he write that much of his work (even the sonnets if you read them carefully) exclusively in it... and as it is otherwise such a popular and widely used form in English verse through the ages, I would hardly consider Iambic Pentameter to be particularly more Shakespearean than any other verse form. But I will nevertheless do my best, however you explain your requirements to me ;) I may be a pedant, particularly when pisshed, but I'm not a spoilsport.
 

Anentropic IxTx

New member
Joined
Dec 27, 2008
Messages
268
MBTI Type
INTP
Enneagram
5
The best clarification I can come up with atm: something, poem or not, in Iambic Pentameter possessing something that you would otherwise classify as Shakespearean features.
 

ragashree

Reason vs Being
Joined
Nov 3, 2008
Messages
1,770
MBTI Type
Mine
Enneagram
1w9
The best clarification I can come up with atm: something, poem or not, in Iambic Pentameter possessing something that you would otherwise classify as Shakespearean features.

Ok, that's fine... I shall do my best to satisfy you on all the possible counts simultaneously then. Hope you enjoy it ;)

(for Bluemonday when you get round to reading this thread too)


Subtleties the poet could never dream
Can be inserted thence into his work;
Or with what sense did Avon's brimming stream
Dredge down such silt of academic murk

From the bowels of a factory-festered land?
Now vile adulterations can be grown
For those to feed who cannot understand
From the greasy leaves of a well thumbed tome.

Why so? 'Twas nature - subtle, to be sure,
Irridescent, mighty salmon's leaping;
Sweet, as mountain waters far fom shore,
But dammed too long and brackish from its keeping.

I fear that this must always be the same:
The root of beauty circumsised by fame.
 

Anentropic IxTx

New member
Joined
Dec 27, 2008
Messages
268
MBTI Type
INTP
Enneagram
5
Ok, that's fine... I shall do my best to satisfy you on all the possible counts simultaneously then. Hope you enjoy it ;)

(for Bluemonday when you get round to reading this thread too)


Subtleties the poet could never dream
Can be inserted thence into his work;
Or with what sense did Avon's brimming stream
Dredge down such silt of academic murk

From the bowels of a factory-festered land?
Now vile adulterations can be grown
For those to feed who cannot understand
From the greasy leaves of a well thumbed tome.

Why so? 'Twas nature - subtle, to be sure,
Irridescent, mighty salmon's leaping;
Sweet, as mountain waters far fom shore,
But dammed too long and brackish from its keeping.

I fear that this must always be the same:
The root of beauty circumsised by fame.

Amazing! :thumbup:
 

GZA

Resident Snot-Nose
Joined
Aug 13, 2007
Messages
1,771
MBTI Type
infp
What ho,a pox upon thy name, for thou art a rogue of villainess deeds! Thy father was a frothy drunk and thy mother a whore o' babylon so draw thy sword for we shall fight, en garde!
 

Salomé

meh
Joined
Sep 25, 2008
Messages
10,527
MBTI Type
INTP
Enneagram
5w4
Instinctual Variant
sx/sp
(For ragashree - one exile to another ;) )

-not quite a sonnet-

Am I Mancunian to be exiled thus?
My 'scent too heavy of an English rose;
My curtsey not pink as courtesy must
Needs be, perhaps my blood too blue to flow,
Or not quite blue enough? Aye, there's the rub.
Familiarity with contempt breeds
Subterfuge. In underground bars and clubs,
Liquor makes bold and poison envy feeds.

I favoured good Mercutio the clown,
For laughter often ends in tragedy.
At close of play we will have tears to drown
All hopes of lovers ending happily.
I would that bitter rivals could be wed;
In this undoing all are punish-ed.
 

pippi

New member
Joined
Sep 6, 2008
Messages
735
MBTI Type
xxxx
iambic_pentameter.jpg
 
Top