Many of you may be surprised to know that I have strong feelings for a man named William. William Shakespeare, that is. No, I am not the sharpest tool in the shed or the brightest bulb in the bunch. Shakespeare is not something that comes easy to me in any way, and like most of you, I have to look up a lot of his plays and poems on No Fear Shakespeare on sparknotes.com, but when you really dig deeper into his words, I can completely understand why he is considered one of the masters of his art. I am very drawn to Shakespeare, mostly because he feeds on such raw human emotion. I think he's the best at using language to make you feel how he's feeling. His words pull me into whatever he's describing and whether I've felt the way he's feeling or not, I completely understand what he's talking about. The fact that he's wonderful at not only writing plays, but also poems and sonnets is also really compelling. He's multi-talented and that's not something a lot of artist and writers can say for themselves. The other day I was reading some poems on the internet for our Poetry Responses and I came across one of Shakespeare's that I ended up writing about. Of course, it was beautiful (it's Shakespeare, let's get real) but this sonnet was actually quite... funny. I was shocked! The poem was about how much a man loved a woman and everything about her was perfection. He tells her that he loves her and then throughout the poem she is practically holding her tongue on how she really feels about him. In the second line, she says "I hate..." then notices how upset he is, feels guilty, and he ends the piece when she says "not you." I just thought that was quite clever and humorous coming from someone like Shakespeare who is known for his sappy love stories and twisted tragedies. I guess that goes along with the fact that he's multi-talented. Of course there are many reasons why Shakespeare is the best of the best, but I found a quote that pretty much relates back to why I like him so much.
"His grasp of the human condition is perhaps unmatched in literature." -Terry W. Glaspey
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