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University Instructor of Lit, Writing, early ret! ✍🏼📚Writing, Lit, Music, Nature🎶🌲Chaucer, ShakespeareSunday, 19th C Brit Lit💙"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air”~Emerson💙Embrace kindness💙#SlavaUkraini💙💛 Blue dot in Texas 💙
February 7, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Theme: Light and Dark – Lantern

“Ay, or else one must come in with a bush of
thorns and a lantern, and say he comes to disfigure or
to present the person of Moonshine.”
 
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, AIII, SI
February 4, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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AYLI, AI, SI  

"... he is already in the Forest of Arden & a many merry men with him; and there they live like the Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day & fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
January 14, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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Theme: Days, Weeks, Years

R & J, AV, SI

“And all this day an unaccustomed spirit
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.”
December 31, 2023 at 6:24 AM
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Theme: Days, Weeks, Years

Sonnet 43

“All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me”
December 31, 2023 at 6:08 AM
“Sleeping in the Forest”
by Mary Oliver 💙
December 17, 2023 at 5:30 AM
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Theme: Winter  

Sonnet 97 

“How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,
the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December’s bareness everywhere!”
December 3, 2023 at 8:03 AM
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Theme: Winter
 
Titus Andronicus, A III, S I
 
“In winter with warm tears I’ll melt the snow
And keep eternal spring-time on thy face.”
December 3, 2023 at 6:21 AM
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Theme: Winter
 
Sonnet V
 
"For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter and confounds him there;
Sap cheque’d with frost and lusty leaves quite gone;
Beauty o’ersnow’d and bareness every where.”
December 3, 2023 at 6:15 AM
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Theme: Stage Direction
 
Henry VI, Part III, A I, S IV
 
“[She puts a paper crown on his head]”
November 19, 2023 at 6:27 AM
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Theme: Stage Direction
 
Henry IV, Part I, A II, S 1

“Alarum. Enter an English Soldier, crying, 'A Talbot! a Talbot!'
They fly, leaving their clothes behind”
November 19, 2023 at 6:21 AM
"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other." ~ George Eliot
November 17, 2023 at 6:03 AM
Fogelberg’s lyrics for The Passage are pure poetry, so I’m including them too. 💙🎶💙
November 16, 2023 at 8:50 AM
By end of first verse, Mumford, on sidelines, is in tears; by song’s end, Producers Coen bros are in tears. This is from Another Day, Another Time, the concert show to celebrate opening of movie Inside Llewyn Davis. If you can find it, watch it (& the movie!) 💙🎶💙
November 14, 2023 at 6:41 AM
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Theme: Love and Loss  

Much Ado About Nothing, A III, S II  

“Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.”
November 12, 2023 at 6:46 AM
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Theme: Love and Loss
 
Twelfth Night, A II, S IV
 
“She pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.”
November 12, 2023 at 6:45 AM
“The effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to those who lived faithfully a hidden life.” ~ George Eliot
November 10, 2023 at 8:45 AM
November 7, 2023 at 11:10 PM
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King Lear, A I, S I
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Theme: Loyalty, Traitors

Kent:
“Royal Lear, whom I have ever honored as my king, loved as my father; as my master followed, as my great patron thought on in my prayers”
November 5, 2023 at 8:26 PM

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12th Night, A I S IV
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Theme: Loyalty, Traitors

Viola:
"I'll do my best to woo your lady: yet a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife"
November 5, 2023 at 8:22 PM
“I do desire we may be better strangers.”

AULI, A III, S II
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Theme: Jokes, Jests
(Pic: Austen’s P&P)
October 22, 2023 at 5:09 AM
“More of your conversation would infect my brain.”

Coriolanus, A II, S I
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Theme: Jokes, Jests
October 22, 2023 at 5:08 AM
“Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”

King Lear, A IV
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Theme: Jokes, Jests
*Orig from Chaucer
October 22, 2023 at 5:06 AM
“But shall we wear these glories for a day?
Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?
Still live they, and forever let them last.”

Richard III, A IV, S II
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Theme: Glory
October 15, 2023 at 6:01 AM
“Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught.”

Henry VI, Part I, A I, S II
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Theme: Glory
October 15, 2023 at 6:00 AM