This document summarizes Act 1, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice". It introduces the characters Antonio, Salarino, and Salanio. Antonio is sad but does not know why. Salarino and Salanio speculate it could be because of his business ventures or that he is in love. Bassanio, Lorenzo and Gratiano enter and the others depart, leaving Antonio with his new company.
William Shakespeare The Merchant Of Venicemoni_simi
This document contains the dramatis personae and the beginning of Act I of William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice". It introduces the main characters including Antonio, Bassanio, Portia, Nerissa, and Shylock and sets up the story. Bassanio asks Antonio for money so he can travel to Belmont and woo the wealthy heiress Portia. Antonio agrees to help his friend by borrowing money from the Jewish moneylender Shylock, despite their differences.
Salarino and Salanio discuss recent events. The Jew Shylock's daughter Jessica has eloped with Lorenzo, taking some of Shylock's jewels and ducats. Shylock is outraged and demanding justice. They also discuss that Antonio's trading vessel may have been lost at sea.
The Prince of Arragon comes to Belmont to choose among the caskets in hopes of winning Portia. He chooses the silver casket and finds a portrait calling him a fool. Rejected, he departs.
A servant tells Portia that Bassanio's emissary has arrived, praising his lord Bassanio and bringing gifts, in advance of Bassanio
The document summarizes a scene from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. Lorenzo and Jessica, who are in love, meet under a penthouse. Jessica, disguised as a boy, drops a casket from her window for Lorenzo. They plan to meet later to attend a feast together. Gratiano comments that Jessica seems a Gentile rather than a Jew. Lorenzo praises Jessica for her wisdom, fairness, and truthfulness.
Miranda argues that Shakespeare intended The Taming of the Shrew to be an ironic comedy that pokes fun at misogynistic men rather than endorse the mistreatment of women. While some of Petruchio's actions seem disrespectful, certain scenes and Kate's final speech suggest she maintains her personality and mind of her own. The debate between interpretations is meant to spark discussion about Shakespeare's true message regarding gender relations and a woman's place in society.
This document provides a summary of William Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew" in 3 acts and 5 scenes. It outlines the key events and interactions between characters such as Lucentio, Tranio, Baptista, Katharina, Bianca, Hortensio, Gremio, and Petruchio in Padua, Italy as various suitors try to woo Bianca but must first deal with her shrewish sister Katharina.
This document is a slideshow presentation paying tribute to women throughout history. It contains quotes praising womanhood and poems reflecting on themes of motherhood, relationships, and finding inner peace. The presentation aims to honor women's resilience and importance throughout the ages.
Brutus addresses the crowd in the Forum to justify Caesar's assassination. He argues that he loved Rome more than he loved Caesar, and that Caesar's ambition made him a threat to the Republic. Brutus wins over the crowd, who chant his praise. But Brutus is wary of letting Mark Antony speak next, fearing Antony will turn the crowd against the conspirators. Brutus obtains the crowd's promise to stay and listen to Antony before departing alone.
The document describes a speech given by a Shogun to rally his army to go to war against rival factions in order to unite the land under a single banner. It discusses the failures of previous rulers, including elves, kings, and other families, and argues that it is time for the army of Xian-an to take control of their own destiny. The Shogun delivers an inspiring yet terrifying speech to prepare the men for battle and conquest.
William Shakespeare The Merchant Of Venicemoni_simi
This document contains the dramatis personae and the beginning of Act I of William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice". It introduces the main characters including Antonio, Bassanio, Portia, Nerissa, and Shylock and sets up the story. Bassanio asks Antonio for money so he can travel to Belmont and woo the wealthy heiress Portia. Antonio agrees to help his friend by borrowing money from the Jewish moneylender Shylock, despite their differences.
Salarino and Salanio discuss recent events. The Jew Shylock's daughter Jessica has eloped with Lorenzo, taking some of Shylock's jewels and ducats. Shylock is outraged and demanding justice. They also discuss that Antonio's trading vessel may have been lost at sea.
The Prince of Arragon comes to Belmont to choose among the caskets in hopes of winning Portia. He chooses the silver casket and finds a portrait calling him a fool. Rejected, he departs.
A servant tells Portia that Bassanio's emissary has arrived, praising his lord Bassanio and bringing gifts, in advance of Bassanio
The document summarizes a scene from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. Lorenzo and Jessica, who are in love, meet under a penthouse. Jessica, disguised as a boy, drops a casket from her window for Lorenzo. They plan to meet later to attend a feast together. Gratiano comments that Jessica seems a Gentile rather than a Jew. Lorenzo praises Jessica for her wisdom, fairness, and truthfulness.
Miranda argues that Shakespeare intended The Taming of the Shrew to be an ironic comedy that pokes fun at misogynistic men rather than endorse the mistreatment of women. While some of Petruchio's actions seem disrespectful, certain scenes and Kate's final speech suggest she maintains her personality and mind of her own. The debate between interpretations is meant to spark discussion about Shakespeare's true message regarding gender relations and a woman's place in society.
This document provides a summary of William Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew" in 3 acts and 5 scenes. It outlines the key events and interactions between characters such as Lucentio, Tranio, Baptista, Katharina, Bianca, Hortensio, Gremio, and Petruchio in Padua, Italy as various suitors try to woo Bianca but must first deal with her shrewish sister Katharina.
This document is a slideshow presentation paying tribute to women throughout history. It contains quotes praising womanhood and poems reflecting on themes of motherhood, relationships, and finding inner peace. The presentation aims to honor women's resilience and importance throughout the ages.
Brutus addresses the crowd in the Forum to justify Caesar's assassination. He argues that he loved Rome more than he loved Caesar, and that Caesar's ambition made him a threat to the Republic. Brutus wins over the crowd, who chant his praise. But Brutus is wary of letting Mark Antony speak next, fearing Antony will turn the crowd against the conspirators. Brutus obtains the crowd's promise to stay and listen to Antony before departing alone.
The document describes a speech given by a Shogun to rally his army to go to war against rival factions in order to unite the land under a single banner. It discusses the failures of previous rulers, including elves, kings, and other families, and argues that it is time for the army of Xian-an to take control of their own destiny. The Shogun delivers an inspiring yet terrifying speech to prepare the men for battle and conquest.
This short story is narrated by Damen, who is immortal. He is escaping from his relationship with Drina, who he rescued from an orphanage centuries ago but has become greedy and demanding. Damen feels restless and bored with his eternal life and constant need to move to avoid raising suspicions. He arrives at a party in Paris in 1608, thinking about saying goodbye yet again as he seeks an unknown destiny.
The document expresses endless gratitude and salutations to an immortal beloved for tolerating many eccentricities, habits, and flaws. It describes tolerating unconventional behavior, intense emotions, poor hygiene, unlucky tendencies, exotic fears, decaying health, and more. Overall, it thanks the beloved for accepting and bonding with the author despite their unworthiness.
The poem describes the importance of cats having three different types of names - an everyday name used by the family, fancier names if they sound sweeter, and a name that is particular and more dignified to help the cat keep their tail up and pride. It provides examples for each type of name, such as everyday names like Peter or George, fancier names like Plato or Electra, and more dignified names like Munkustrap, Quaxo or Bombalurina.
This summarizes the first section of the document:
[1] The document is an excerpt from The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, published in 1912. It introduces the characters of the narrator and Lady Mirdath the Beautiful, who meet by chance one evening.
[2] They discover they both share knowledge of the same imaginary dream lands. They spend the evening wandering and discussing their shared fantasies.
[3] They become lost track of time in their conversation. Lady Mirdath's guardian sends out a search party when they do not return, but they are found unharmed and in each other's company. This beginning the narrator's love for Lady Mirdath.
UPON THE IMAGE OF DEATH.
Before my face the picture hangs,
That daily should put me in mind
Of those cold names and bitter pangs,
That shortly I am like to find :
But yet, alas, full little I
Do think hereon that I must die.
This summary provides an overview of 3 poems from the document:
1) John Dowland's poem "Can she excuse my wrongs..." expresses the speaker's frustration with a lover who proves unkind despite promises.
2) William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 compares the subject's beauty to nature, saying their beauty surpasses nature's imperfections and will remain eternal.
3) George Herbert's poem "The Pulley" is an allegory where God withholds one final blessing, rest, so that humanity remains dependent on God rather than nature.
Poetry Without Borders: Places and Memoriesrmpalacios
This summary provides an overview of 3 poems exchanged between Gottfried Benn and Else Lasker-Schüler about love and memory in Berlin in the early 1900s. Else Lasker-Schüler's first poem expresses her clinging love for Benn and the pain of their separation. Benn's response does not offer consolation, describing his solitary path. Lasker-Schüler's second poem depicts her continued longing through painting his face on her room walls and feeling the weight of stars.
Poetry Without Borders: Musings About Nature Fall 2010rmpalacios
The document contains several poems in different languages and styles. It begins with "Confession" by Alfonsina Storni about sinning like roses that die of thirst. It then includes brief poems about wandering through mists by Hermann Hesse, the wide and sad land by Van Wyk Louw, and a shrub by Keven Sandoval. It concludes with Giacomo Leopardi's poem about a lonely sparrow watching other birds joyfully wheel through the sky while it gazes apart and consumes its life with plaintive music.
Twelve poems about life with photographs covering love, enlightenment, inspiration, and loss written by famous poets. Helen Steiner Rice, Henry van Dyke, William Shakespeare, Peter 'Dale' Winbrow snr, Rudyard Kipling, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Ernest Henley, Mary Lee Hall, Mary Frye, Christina Rosetti. Photos (c) Carole Thelwall-Jones unless stated.
This document provides guidance to youth on how to save their lives in the hereafter. It discusses that [1] the grave is certain and one must enter it, and there are three ways it can be approached - as paradise for believers, prison for those who believe but disobey, or extinction for unbelievers. [2] Youth and pleasures are fleeting but belief can provide eternal happiness in this world and the next. [3] Illicit pleasures only provide temporary enjoyment mixed with great pain, while licit pleasures through belief are sufficient and avoid this.
Guest teacher Alicia Jo Rabins introduces two new study guides from her "Girls in Trouble" curriculum. By exploring the stories of the Sotah, and the daughters of Tzelofchad, participants consider women's agency and power in the Torah.
The document discusses the "Woman Question" and changing views of women's roles in Victorian England. It provides excerpts from writings that showcase the debate, including those advocating for expanding women's education and opportunities beyond the home, as well as those promoting the ideal of women's primary role being in the domestic sphere as wives and mothers. The selections illustrate the tensions between traditional views and the emergence of feminist thought advocating for women's independence and ability to pursue meaningful work and advancement.
The poem is about a man who is drowning and experiencing a mental breakdown. He feels lost at sea during a storm and calls out for help but no one can hear him. He descends deeper into madness, having disturbing visions and feeling completely alone. At the end, the narrator reflects on having also experienced mental health issues and feeling adrift without guidance, thinking of a friend who drowned while in the hospital.
The document considers how various things may be viewed from different perspectives, particularly from perspectives that are negative or associated with evil (e.g. the devil). It states that from such perspectives, majestic deserts may seem like places for the poor to rot in hell, innocuous flesh may seem like bait for a venomous scorpion, and omnipotent sun may seem like a barbecue roasting all into ash. Overall, the document suggests that one's perspective can drastically alter how they view the world.
This document provides course contents for an advanced reading skills course, including summaries of 3 poems and 2 songs. It outlines works studied such as sonnets by Shakespeare and Milton, songs by Christina Rossetti and John Donne, dramatic monologues from Browning and Shakespeare, elegies by Gray and Thomas, a ballad by Keats, odes by Shelley and Keats, and free verse by Pound. It also lists one-act plays by Koss, Chekov and Gregory.
Bassanio explains to Antonio that he has spent beyond his means and incurred large debts. He owes the most money and love to Antonio. Bassanio promises to tell Antonio his plans to pay off all his debts, and Antonio offers Bassanio his full support, including money, if Bassanio's plans are honorable. Meanwhile, Gratiano had been trying to cheer up the melancholy Antonio by joking around, but was criticized by Lorenzo for talking nonsense.
Shylock the Jewish moneylender agrees to lend Antonio three thousand ducats for three months. As collateral, Shylock insists that if Antonio defaults, Shylock can take a pound of Antonio's flesh. Antonio agrees, believing his merchant ships will return before the loan is due. Bassanio is uneasy with the harsh terms but Antonio signs the contract, hoping to help his friend while underestimating the risks.
The document appears to contain several poems and passages about William Shakespeare and love. It includes Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 where he compares his love to a summer's day, as well as several other sonnets addressing topics like eternal love, music, and the complexities of love. The final passages discuss love persisting beyond death by Francisco de Quevedo and Manuel Mujica Láinez.
The document discusses William Shakespeare and several of his sonnets. It provides the dates of Shakespeare's life and publication of his sonnets. It then shares summaries and excerpts from Sonnets XVIII, XLIII, LXXI, CXVI, CXXVIII, and CXLIV. It also includes a poem about love enduring beyond death by Francisco de Quevedo and a poem praising Shakespeare by Manuel Mujica Láinez.
The document discusses William Shakespeare and his Sonnets. It provides excerpts from Sonnets XVIII, XLIII, LXXI, CXVI, CXXVIII, and CXLIV. It also includes a poem about love being constant beyond death by Francisco de Quevedo and a poem about finding solace in Shakespeare during times of turmoil by Manuel Mujica Láinez.
Neste trabalho, apresento alguns dados sobre a poesia de Lord Byron, seleciono alguns dos seus principais poemas para mostrar a importância de seu papel para a literatura Inglesa bem como o que caracteriza sua poesia como romântica.
This short story is narrated by Damen, who is immortal. He is escaping from his relationship with Drina, who he rescued from an orphanage centuries ago but has become greedy and demanding. Damen feels restless and bored with his eternal life and constant need to move to avoid raising suspicions. He arrives at a party in Paris in 1608, thinking about saying goodbye yet again as he seeks an unknown destiny.
The document expresses endless gratitude and salutations to an immortal beloved for tolerating many eccentricities, habits, and flaws. It describes tolerating unconventional behavior, intense emotions, poor hygiene, unlucky tendencies, exotic fears, decaying health, and more. Overall, it thanks the beloved for accepting and bonding with the author despite their unworthiness.
The poem describes the importance of cats having three different types of names - an everyday name used by the family, fancier names if they sound sweeter, and a name that is particular and more dignified to help the cat keep their tail up and pride. It provides examples for each type of name, such as everyday names like Peter or George, fancier names like Plato or Electra, and more dignified names like Munkustrap, Quaxo or Bombalurina.
This summarizes the first section of the document:
[1] The document is an excerpt from The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, published in 1912. It introduces the characters of the narrator and Lady Mirdath the Beautiful, who meet by chance one evening.
[2] They discover they both share knowledge of the same imaginary dream lands. They spend the evening wandering and discussing their shared fantasies.
[3] They become lost track of time in their conversation. Lady Mirdath's guardian sends out a search party when they do not return, but they are found unharmed and in each other's company. This beginning the narrator's love for Lady Mirdath.
UPON THE IMAGE OF DEATH.
Before my face the picture hangs,
That daily should put me in mind
Of those cold names and bitter pangs,
That shortly I am like to find :
But yet, alas, full little I
Do think hereon that I must die.
This summary provides an overview of 3 poems from the document:
1) John Dowland's poem "Can she excuse my wrongs..." expresses the speaker's frustration with a lover who proves unkind despite promises.
2) William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 compares the subject's beauty to nature, saying their beauty surpasses nature's imperfections and will remain eternal.
3) George Herbert's poem "The Pulley" is an allegory where God withholds one final blessing, rest, so that humanity remains dependent on God rather than nature.
Poetry Without Borders: Places and Memoriesrmpalacios
This summary provides an overview of 3 poems exchanged between Gottfried Benn and Else Lasker-Schüler about love and memory in Berlin in the early 1900s. Else Lasker-Schüler's first poem expresses her clinging love for Benn and the pain of their separation. Benn's response does not offer consolation, describing his solitary path. Lasker-Schüler's second poem depicts her continued longing through painting his face on her room walls and feeling the weight of stars.
Poetry Without Borders: Musings About Nature Fall 2010rmpalacios
The document contains several poems in different languages and styles. It begins with "Confession" by Alfonsina Storni about sinning like roses that die of thirst. It then includes brief poems about wandering through mists by Hermann Hesse, the wide and sad land by Van Wyk Louw, and a shrub by Keven Sandoval. It concludes with Giacomo Leopardi's poem about a lonely sparrow watching other birds joyfully wheel through the sky while it gazes apart and consumes its life with plaintive music.
Twelve poems about life with photographs covering love, enlightenment, inspiration, and loss written by famous poets. Helen Steiner Rice, Henry van Dyke, William Shakespeare, Peter 'Dale' Winbrow snr, Rudyard Kipling, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Ernest Henley, Mary Lee Hall, Mary Frye, Christina Rosetti. Photos (c) Carole Thelwall-Jones unless stated.
This document provides guidance to youth on how to save their lives in the hereafter. It discusses that [1] the grave is certain and one must enter it, and there are three ways it can be approached - as paradise for believers, prison for those who believe but disobey, or extinction for unbelievers. [2] Youth and pleasures are fleeting but belief can provide eternal happiness in this world and the next. [3] Illicit pleasures only provide temporary enjoyment mixed with great pain, while licit pleasures through belief are sufficient and avoid this.
Guest teacher Alicia Jo Rabins introduces two new study guides from her "Girls in Trouble" curriculum. By exploring the stories of the Sotah, and the daughters of Tzelofchad, participants consider women's agency and power in the Torah.
The document discusses the "Woman Question" and changing views of women's roles in Victorian England. It provides excerpts from writings that showcase the debate, including those advocating for expanding women's education and opportunities beyond the home, as well as those promoting the ideal of women's primary role being in the domestic sphere as wives and mothers. The selections illustrate the tensions between traditional views and the emergence of feminist thought advocating for women's independence and ability to pursue meaningful work and advancement.
The poem is about a man who is drowning and experiencing a mental breakdown. He feels lost at sea during a storm and calls out for help but no one can hear him. He descends deeper into madness, having disturbing visions and feeling completely alone. At the end, the narrator reflects on having also experienced mental health issues and feeling adrift without guidance, thinking of a friend who drowned while in the hospital.
The document considers how various things may be viewed from different perspectives, particularly from perspectives that are negative or associated with evil (e.g. the devil). It states that from such perspectives, majestic deserts may seem like places for the poor to rot in hell, innocuous flesh may seem like bait for a venomous scorpion, and omnipotent sun may seem like a barbecue roasting all into ash. Overall, the document suggests that one's perspective can drastically alter how they view the world.
This document provides course contents for an advanced reading skills course, including summaries of 3 poems and 2 songs. It outlines works studied such as sonnets by Shakespeare and Milton, songs by Christina Rossetti and John Donne, dramatic monologues from Browning and Shakespeare, elegies by Gray and Thomas, a ballad by Keats, odes by Shelley and Keats, and free verse by Pound. It also lists one-act plays by Koss, Chekov and Gregory.
Bassanio explains to Antonio that he has spent beyond his means and incurred large debts. He owes the most money and love to Antonio. Bassanio promises to tell Antonio his plans to pay off all his debts, and Antonio offers Bassanio his full support, including money, if Bassanio's plans are honorable. Meanwhile, Gratiano had been trying to cheer up the melancholy Antonio by joking around, but was criticized by Lorenzo for talking nonsense.
Shylock the Jewish moneylender agrees to lend Antonio three thousand ducats for three months. As collateral, Shylock insists that if Antonio defaults, Shylock can take a pound of Antonio's flesh. Antonio agrees, believing his merchant ships will return before the loan is due. Bassanio is uneasy with the harsh terms but Antonio signs the contract, hoping to help his friend while underestimating the risks.
The document appears to contain several poems and passages about William Shakespeare and love. It includes Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 where he compares his love to a summer's day, as well as several other sonnets addressing topics like eternal love, music, and the complexities of love. The final passages discuss love persisting beyond death by Francisco de Quevedo and Manuel Mujica Láinez.
The document discusses William Shakespeare and several of his sonnets. It provides the dates of Shakespeare's life and publication of his sonnets. It then shares summaries and excerpts from Sonnets XVIII, XLIII, LXXI, CXVI, CXXVIII, and CXLIV. It also includes a poem about love enduring beyond death by Francisco de Quevedo and a poem praising Shakespeare by Manuel Mujica Láinez.
The document discusses William Shakespeare and his Sonnets. It provides excerpts from Sonnets XVIII, XLIII, LXXI, CXVI, CXXVIII, and CXLIV. It also includes a poem about love being constant beyond death by Francisco de Quevedo and a poem about finding solace in Shakespeare during times of turmoil by Manuel Mujica Láinez.
Neste trabalho, apresento alguns dados sobre a poesia de Lord Byron, seleciono alguns dos seus principais poemas para mostrar a importância de seu papel para a literatura Inglesa bem como o que caracteriza sua poesia como romântica.
The merchant of venice - william shakespeareLibripass
The document provides background information on William Shakespeare and his play The Merchant of Venice. It discusses that Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. The Merchant of Venice is one of his famous plays about a merchant in Venice named Antonio who guarantees a loan for his friend. It also includes a list of Shakespeare's plays that are available to download.
Antonio seems sad and his friends try to cheer him up. When Bassanio arrives, he asks Antonio for money so he can travel to Belmont and woo Portia, a beautiful and wealthy heiress. Antonio agrees to help his friend by borrowing money from the moneylender Shylock, despite their differences. Bassanio hopes the venture will allow him to pay off his debts.
"The Merchant Of Venice" - Scabrosi & Frigerioguest13c6b1
The document provides an overview of scenes and characters from Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. It summarizes key plot points like Shylock lending Antonio money with the unusual condition that if he defaults, Shylock can take a pound of his flesh. The document also examines the antagonism between Shylock and Antonio, with Shylock resenting Antonio for his insults towards Jews and undercutting of interest rates. Overall, the document touches on major events and themes in the play through brief scene summaries and character analyses.
This poem describes two children, a brother and sister, cruelly killing butterflies on a Sunday with a common pin. The girl shrieks as she eviscerates the abdomen of one butterfly. The narrator reflects on the "heredity of cruelty everywhere" and how even innocent summer dresses can be torn. The mind fears seeing normal signs that could foreshadow future grief or violence. Overall it shows the darkness that can lurk beneath innocent childhood games and a seemingly idyllic summer day.
The document announces a performance of sonnets and monologues by William Shakespeare presented by the Teatro & Contorni group from Genoa, Italy. It will feature 12 students who have studied under the direction of Patrizia Ercole. The performance will include excerpts from Shakespeare's plays Henry V, As You Like It, Hamlet, Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Much Ado About Nothing. It will also feature performances of Sonnets 23, 75, 90, 109, 116, 129, 147, 12, 8, 113, and 116. The program concludes with fragments from The Taming of the Shrew.
This poem describes the sounds of drums and bugles interrupting various peaceful human activities. It depicts drums and bugles scattering a congregation in a church, disturbing a student and bride on their wedding day. The drums and bugles are portrayed as a fierce, ruthless force that cannot be stopped or bargained with, drowning out all other sounds and preventing sleep, work or prayer. The drums beat louder and bugles blow wilder, shaking even the dead awaiting burial.
1) A storm at sea has shipwrecked Alonso, king of Naples, and others on Prospero's island. Prospero used magic to conjure the storm in order to bring his enemies to the island.
2) Prospero explains to his daughter Miranda how they came to be exiled on the island. Antonio, Prospero's brother and the Duke of Milan, conspired with the king of Naples to overthrow Prospero.
3) Prospero promises to now explain to Miranda his reasons for raising the sea storm that brought the ship to the island, saying it allows him to get revenge on his enemies and regain his lost dukedom. He then addresses his spirit servant Ariel
This document provides a brief history of Lebanon in 3 paragraphs:
1) Lebanon has a rich history dating back over 7,000 years to the Canaanites and Phoenicians. It came under Roman rule in 64 BC and became a center of Christianity. Arab Muslims later conquered the area.
2) The Maronite Church was established in Mount Lebanon during Roman times and the Maronites were able to hold onto their Christian faith despite later Arab rule. The Druze religion was also established in Mount Lebanon.
3) Key events in Lebanon's history include the Crusades during which the Maronites reconnected with the Catholic Church. The country's position at cultural crossroads has led to an identity
If You Forget Me,” Pablo NerudaI want you to knowone thing..docxwilcockiris
“If You Forget Me,” Pablo Neruda
I want you to know
one thing.
You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.
Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.
If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.
If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.
But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.
“The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
We Are Seven
William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
A SIMPLE Child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?
I met a little cottage Girl:
5
She was eight years old, she said;
Her hair was thick with many a curl
That clustered round her head.
She had a rustic, woodland air,
And she was wildly clad:
10
Her eyes were fair, and very fair;
—Her beauty made me glad.
‘Sisters and brothers, little Maid,
How many may you be?’
‘How many? Seven in all,’ she said,
15
And wondering looked at me.
‘And where are they? I pray you tell.’
She answered, ‘Seven are we;
And two of us at Conway dwell,
And two are gone to sea.
20
‘Two of us in the church-yard lie,
My sister and my brother;
And, in the church-yard cottage, I
Dwell near them wi.
Salanio and Salarino discuss news from the Rialto marketplace in Venice. Antonio, a merchant, has lost a ship at sea. Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, enters and discusses his daughter Jessica's elopement. Shylock had lent money to Antonio and plans to collect if Antonio defaults on the loan. Shylock's hatred of Antonio stems from Antonio's mistreatment due to Shylock's Jewish faith. Tubal brings news that Antonio's ships have been lost at sea, and it appears Antonio will default on his loan to Shylock.
This document provides an overview of Victorian poets Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Matthew Arnold. It discusses their backgrounds, major works, and poetic forms. It analyzes Tennyson's long poem "In Memoriam A.H.H." which mourned the loss of his friend Arthur Hallam and explored grief, faith, and homoerotic love. It also examines Browning's dramatic monologue "My Last Duchess" told from the perspective of a manipulative Duke, and Arnold's dramatic lyric "Dover Beach" which reflected on loss of faith. The document promotes considering these poems through queer readings that acknowledge Victorian anxieties around same-sex affection.
Harrisons amusing picture book of poetry and humor, 1800Chuck Thompson
Harrisons amusing picture book of poetry and humor, 1800. From the days long gone. A childrens book from the very beginning of the 19th century. Nice bit of history. Gloucester, Virginia Links and News website. Visit us. http://www.gloucestercounty-va.com
The document is an excerpt from Walden by Henry David Thoreau. It discusses his experience living alone in a cabin he built near Walden Pond for over two years. He lived a simple life, growing his own food and earning a living through manual labor. Thoreau reflects on society's unnecessary struggles and preoccupation with wealth and status. He believes most people live lives of "quiet desperation" focused on superficial goals rather than seeking inner spiritual fulfillment.
I have compiled this book so that you can get it printed. Its available in PDF form and you can download it, i will leave the option open. Its an anthology taught in NUML and students often have difficulty finding poems.
1) The scene introduces Prince Morocco who has come to Belmont to try his luck choosing among three caskets to win Portia's hand in marriage. Morocco expresses his confidence but acknowledges that fortune may favor an unworthier man.
2) Launcelot debates whether to stay in the service of his master, the Jew, or to run away. He encounters his blind father who does not recognize him.
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4. ANTONIO : In sooth, I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how
I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; And
such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself.
SALARINO : Your mind is tossing on the ocean; There, where your argosies with portly sail, Like
signiors and rich burghers on the flood, Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea, Do overpeer the
petty traffickers, That curtsy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven
wings.
SALANIO: Believe me, sir, had I such venture forth, The better part of my affections would Be
with my hopes abroad. I should be still Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind, Peering
in maps for ports and piers and roads; And every object that might make me fear Misfortune to
my ventures, out of doubt Would make me sad.
5. SALARINO : My wind cooling my broth Would blow me to an ague, when I thought What harm a wind too
great at sea might do. I should not see the sandy hour-glass run, But I should think of shallows and of flats,
And see my wealthy Andrew dock'd in sand, Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs To kiss her burial.
Should I go to church And see the holy edifice of stone, And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks,
Which touching but my gentle vessel's side, Would scatter all her spices on the stream, Enrobe the roaring
waters with my silks, And, in a word, but even now worth this, And now worth nothing? Shall I have the
thought To think on this, and shall I lack the thought That such a thing bechanced would make me sad?
But tell not me; I know, Antonio Is sad to think upon his merchandise.
ANTONIO: Believe me, no: I thank my fortune for it, My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to
one place; nor is my whole estate Upon the fortune of this present year: Therefore my merchandise makes
me not sad.
6. SALARINO: Why, then you are in love.
ANTONIO : Fie, fie!
SALARINO: Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad, Because you
are not merry: and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are
merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath
framed strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through
their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar
aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor
swear the jest be laughable.
7. Enter BASSANIO, LORENZO and GRATIANO
SALANIO : Here comes Bassanio, your most noble kinsman, Gratiano and Lorenzo. Fare
ye well: We leave you now with better company.
SALARINO: I would have stay'd till I had made you merry, If worthier friends had not
prevented me.
ANTONIO : Your worth is very dear in my regard. I take it, your own business calls on
you And you embrace the occasion to depart.
SALARINO: Good morrow, my good lords.
BASSANIO: Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when? You grow exceeding
strange: must it be so?
SALARINO: We'll make our leisures to attend on yours. Exeunt Salarino and Salanio.
8. LORENZO: My Lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio, We two will leave you: but
at dinner-time, I pray you, have in mind where we must meet.
BASSANIO : I will not fail you. .
GRATIANO : You look not well, Signior Antonio; You have too much respect upon the
world: They lose it that do buy it with much care: Believe me, you are marvelously
changed.
ANTONIO : I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must
play a part, And mine a sad one.
9. GRATIANO: Let me play the fool: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my
liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose
blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? Sleep when he wakes and creep into
the jaundice By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio-- I love thee, and it is my love that
speaks-- There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And
do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity,
profound conceit, As who should say 'I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!' O
my Antonio, I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing; when, I
am very sure, If they should speak, would almost damn those ears, Which, hearing them, would
call their brothers fools. I'll tell thee more of this another time: But fish not, with this melancholy
bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. Come, good Lorenzo. Fare ye well awhile: I'll end my
exhortation after dinner.
10. LORENZO : Well, we will leave you then till dinner-time: I must be one of these same dumb wise
men, For Gratiano never lets me speak.
GRATIANO : Well, keep me company but two years moe, Thou shalt not know the sound of
thine own tongue.
ANTONIO : Farewell: I'll grow a talker for this gear.
GRATIANO : Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried and a
maid not vendible.
11. Exeunt GRATIANO and LORENZO
ANTONIO: Is that any thing now?
BASSANIO : Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all
Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall
seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the
search.
ANTONIO : Well, tell me now what lady is the same To whom you swore a secret
pilgrimage, That you to-day promised to tell me of?
12. BASSANIO : 'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio, How much I have disabled mine estate, By
something showing a more swelling port Than my faint means would grant continuance: Nor do I
now make moan to be abridged From such a noble rate; but my chief care Is to come fairly off
from the great debts Wherein my time something too prodigal Hath left me gaged. To you,
Antonio, I owe the most, in money and in love, And from your love I have a warranty To
unburden all my plots and purposes How to get clear of all the debts I owe.
ANTONIO: I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it; And if it stand, as you yourself still do,
Within the eye of honour, be assured, My purse, my person, my extremest means, Lie all unlock'd
to your occasions.
13. BASSANIO : In my school -days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the self-same
flight The self-same way with more advised watch, To find the other forth, and by adventuring
both I oft found both: I urge this childhood proof, Because what follows is pure innocence. I owe
you much, and, like a wilful youth , That which I owe is lost; but if you please To shoot another
arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt, As I will watch the aim, or to
find both Or bring your latter hazard back again And thankfully rest debtor for the first .
ANTONIO : You know me well, and herein spend but time To wind about my love with
circumstance; And out of doubt you do me now more wrong In making question of my uttermost
Than if you had made waste of all I have: Then do but say to me what I should do That in your
knowledge may by me be done, And I am prest unto it: therefore, speak.
14. BASSANIO : In Belmont is a lady richly left; And she is fair, and, fairer than that word, Of
wondrous virtues: sometimes from her eyes I did receive fair speechless messages: Her name
is Portia, nothing undervalued To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia: Nor is the wide world
ignorant of her worth, For the four winds blow in from every coast Renowned suitors, and her
sunny locks Hang on her temples like a golden fleece; Which makes her seat of Belmont
Colchos' strand, And many Jasons come in quest of her. O my Antonio, had I but the means To
hold a rival place with one of them, I have a mind presages me such thrift, That I should
questionless be fortunate!
15. ANTONIO : Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea; Neither have
I money nor commodity To raise a present sum: therefore go forth; Try
what my credit can in Venice do: That shall be rack'd, even to the
uttermost, To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia. Go, presently
inquire, and so will I, Where money is, and I no question make To have
it of my trust or for my sake.
17. Enter PORTIA and NERISSA
PORTIA : By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.
NERISSA : You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same
abundance as your good fortunes are: and yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that
surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness
therefore, to be seated in the mean: superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but
competency lives longer.
PORTIA : Good sentences and well pronounced.
NERISSA : They would be better, if well followed.
18. PORTIA : If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been
churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his
own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of
the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a
hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o'er the
meshes of good counsel the cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to choose
me a husband. O me, the word 'choose!' I may neither choose whom I would nor refuse
whom I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. Is
it not hard, Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?
19. NERISSA : Your father was ever virtuous; and holy men at their death
have good inspirations: therefore the lottery, that he hath devised in these
three chests of gold, silver and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning
chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen by any rightly but one who
shall rightly love. But what warmth is there in your affection towards any
of these princely suitors that are already come?
PORTIA: I pray thee, over -name them; and as thou namest them, I will
describe them; and, according to my description, level at my affection
20. NERISSA : First, there is the Neapolitan prince.
PORTIA : Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but talk of his horse; and he
makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts, that he can shoe him himself. I
am much afeard my lady his mother played false with a smith.
NERISSA : Then there is the County Palatine.
PORTIA : He doth nothing but frown, as who should say 'If you will not have me,
choose:' he hears merry tales and smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping
philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. I
had rather be married to a death’s -head with a bone in his mouth than to either of
these. God defend me from these two!
21. NERISSA : How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le Bon?
PORTIA: God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. In truth, I know it is
a sin to be a mocker: but, he! why, he hath a horse better than the Neapolitan's, a
better bad habit of frowning than the Count Palatine; he is every man in no man; if
a throstle sing, he falls straight a capering: he will fence with his own shadow: if I
should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands. If he would despise me I would
forgive him, for if he love me to madness, I shall never requite him.
NERISSA : What say you, then, to Falconbridge, the young baron of England?
22. PORTIA : You know I say nothing to him, for he understands not me,
nor I him: he hath neither Latin, French, nor Italian, and you will come
into the court and swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English.
He is a proper man's picture, but, alas, who can converse with a dumb -
show? How oddly he is suited!
I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round hose in France, his
bonnet in Germany and his behavior every where.
NERISSA : What think you of the Scottish lord, his neighbour?
23. PORTIA : That he hath a neighbourly charity in him, for he borrowed a box of the ear
of the Englishman and swore he would pay him again when he was able: I think the
Frenchman became his surety and sealed under for another.
NERISSA: How like you the young German, the Duke of Saxony's nephew?
PORTIA: Very vilely in the morning, when he is sober, and most vilely in the
afternoon, when he is drunk: when he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when
he is worst, he is little better than a beast: and the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall
make shift to go without him.
NERISSA: If he should offer to choose, and choose the right casket, you should refuse
to perform your father's will, if you should refuse to accept him.
24. PORTIA: Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee, set a deep glass of rhenish wine
on the contrary casket, for if the devil be within and that temptation without, I know
he will choose it. I will do any thing, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.
NERISSA: You need not fear, lady, the having any of these lords: they have
acquainted me with their determinations; which is, indeed, to return to their home
and to trouble you with no more suit, unless you may be won by some other sort than
your father's imposition depending on the caskets.
25. PORTIA: If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as chaste as Diana, unless I be
obtained by the manner of my father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooers are so
reasonable, for there is not one among them but I dote on his very absence, and I pray
God grant them a fair departure.
NERISSA: Do you not remember, lady, in your father's time, a Venetian, a scholar and a
soldier, that came hither in company of the Marquis of Montferrat?
PORTIA: Yes, yes, it was Bassanio; as I think, he was so called.
NERISSA: True, madam: he, of all the men that ever my foolish eyes looked upon, was
the best deserving a fair lady.
PORTIA: I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of thy praise
26. Enter a Serving-man How now! what news?
Servant: The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take their leave: and there is a
forerunner come from a fifth, the Prince of Morocco, who brings word the prince his
master will be here to-night.
PORTIA: If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good a heart as I can bid the other
four farewell, I should be glad of his approach: if he have the condition of a saint and
the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me. Come,
Nerissa. Sirrah, go before. Whiles we shut the gates upon one wooer, another knocks
at the door.