Sonnet 130 "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun" by Will Shakespeare
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that was amazin
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Very well done :) I love this sonnet, 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and 'love encompasses all imperfections.' that's how i understand it anyway.
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I liked yours much better. But I have a mega-crush on AR. So I'll like his as well. Not that I'm totally into restraint but I found his rendition too emotional. Maybe it was the sentimental music in the background. But am glad that youtuber uploaded and did the vid anyway. All art is good. Have a wonderful New Year, Spoken!
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Its like the total opposite to sonnet 18.,.,
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I used to use this to introduce foreign language students to English literature. People who have Racine or Dante or Goethe as their National Poet are - at first - scandalised that Shakespeare can take the mickey out of poetry so relentlessly.
Then - quite suddenly - they get the hang of it.
We're very lucky to have him.
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scifiwritir 2 years ago
Thanks. Rickman appeals to a different audience, much greater than mine. He takes the poem and makes it his own, as they say on X-factor.
SpokenVerse 2 years ago
Excellent rendition - though it doesn't say 'mistresses'!
(Damask'd should be read DAMaskd rather than damASKED also . . .)
Sorry to be pedantic!
Check out Alan Rickman's version.
EvilEddtheRed 2 years ago
I've known the poem by heart all my life and I try to reproduce the way it sounds to me. I'm not a learned man and I am aware that scholars tutored in modern or Shakespearian English might hear it differently. In other poems too, I pronounce some words as they seem to flow best.
As much as I like Alan Rickman's voice - and he could make a train-timetable sound sexy - I don't feel that this is a sexy poem: it's more world-weary and compassionate.
SpokenVerse 2 years ago
To be fair, your rendition is excellent, and I know I'm being pedantic! If you try 'mistress'' it'll flow better . . . 'Damasked' might be more a matter of opinion.
Just my thoughts.
EvilEddtheRed 2 years ago
Librivox has seventeen recordings of this poem. Of these, eleven pronouce it the way I do, and the other six are with you. I cannot say that my way is right but it's certainly not unusual.
SpokenVerse 2 years ago