Hamlet II

By Steve

Sat, 07 Sep 2013
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Hamlet: Shall I compare thee to a winter's day/ thou art more dreadful and dry/ dark winds do bedeck the snows of decay/ and winter's weight long upon the bones ware dye/ thy temptations are dressed upon thine sleeves/ while other motives sneak about like thieves. Ophelia: thine eyes are dark pearls dropped upon a web of delicious greens/ thy words drip out of thine mouth like raindrops which feeds the hungry grounds/ sweeter than summer zephyrs laced with perfumed wares is thine breath/ do not deny me the pomegranate of thy bosom/ the endless pleasures of the bedroom/ where our bodies may dance like snakes in heat./ Why cast thyself in such a hermetic mode/ art thou a hamlet, a small village?/ no one can live by himself/ let us roll the night into bedsheets/ and serve our pleasures to the gods/ for sweet Hamlet/ only one life have we to live...

Certificate 15
Poem
Drama

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Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Different and experimental!  Elsie

Submitted by Steve on

Thank you so much Elsie. I'm actually combining Richrad III and Hamlet here. I wanted to give Hamlet a modern, political sensibility. He is Machiavellian and Byronic at the same time. Hamlet wants to be both feared and loved in the Machiavellian sense and Byronic in his sense of titanic self-assertion and sexual indulgence. Of course, it's political. He will seduce his allies one by one and promise them the same or similar territories in Denmark. The quote by Naomi Ginsberg is a very interesting one. The key is in the window, but I think the window signifies madness. Then she says, the key is in the sunlight at the window... which makes perfect sense.