The Sonnet Project........Part 2

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The project:

The project was very simply to see if I can get about 30+ YTbers to say 98 lines of poetry to piece them together to form 7 sonnets.

You guys will be the judge if it worked or not but I am thankful to all of them for taking time from their busy lives to submit the lines.

I was going to put an interpretive blurb here about each of the sonnets, but then figured each one should interpret these lines thru the lens of their own life's loves and circumstances.


This is sonnet # 14 for the Sonnets from the Portuguese series by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written ca. 1845--1846 and first published in 1850. See part 1 for more information.

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
"I love her for her smile--her look--her way
Of speaking gently,--for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day" -
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, -
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.


Youtubers - in order of appearance

http://www.youtube.com/Pippilly
http://www.youtube.com/timido66
http://www.youtube.com/Fringe111
http://www.youtube.com/SunnyDazStormyNitz
http://www.youtube.com/Perroquet51
http://www.youtube.com/blinkazoid
http://www.youtube.com/adnerb924
http://www.youtube.com/LeSaMilano
http://www.youtube.com/nancyleeould
http://www.youtube.com/RoyalHairdresser
http://www.youtube.com/ohCurt
http://www.youtube.com/sweetqueento3
http://www.youtube.com/Stephstance
http://www.youtube.com/hippiefied1


Shakespeare's sonnet #18, is another one of his best known -- especially the opening verse.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.


Youtubers - in order of appearance

http://www.youtube.com/LisaAsterisk
http://www.youtube.com/OHdulcenea
http://www.youtube.com/wpgpeanut
http://www.youtube.com/mtamorphis
http://www.youtube.com/SunnyDazStormyNitz
http://www.youtube.com/anakin1814
http://www.youtube.com/alphaba2
http://www.youtube.com/dl737
http://www.youtube.com/nbwulf
http://www.youtube.com/Blizzeekitty
http://www.youtube.com/MsOpheliaPayne
http://www.youtube.com/suburbanmom
http://www.youtube.com/gwabir
http://www.youtube.com/flydarling

Music: Skye Cuillin by Kevin MacLeod. Royalty free at Incompetech.com

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[Fringe111]

Danny it turned out great. I'm so happy you included me

[dl737]

Thanks Joy - glad you could do it!!

[Pippilly]

I'm here! I think this turned out really well Danny. I'm dreading looking at my next dramatic performance ROFL!! Your part 3 which I'm about to look at showed up on my page twice. Great job Danny : P

[dl737]

Thanks Michelle - you as well as everyone on this project, were great. Thanks again for your participation. And ya - I'm still having issues with my sub page. I am heartily disgusted by it :(

[gwabir]

seriously this was such a great idea!!! it is even fun to listen to the story LOL! u rock dany

GW

[dl737]

LOL - thanks GW - and thanks so much for being part of this project!!

[dl737]

:-)

[Rashisha]

Awesome JOb Danny :D Im really Enjoying these :)

[dl737]

Thanks Nancy -

Agreed - well done by all indeed!!

[dl737]

Agreed - they did a fantastic job - esp since they had no idea what they were going. They were just given lines to recite any way they wanted.