I love "Romeo and Juliet"...
2007-12-07 12:18:36 · 6 answers · asked by Raven 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
Only one or two answers above got your question: favorite play and favorite sonnet!
My take:
Favorite play - A Winter's Tale
Favorite sonnet - 144
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2007-12-07 13:34:08 · answer #1 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to say my favorite, from what I've read, is his Sonnet 130.
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Haha, you can tell this guy had a great sense of humor and would have been fun to hang out with. :)
2007-12-07 12:52:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For sheer starkness of vision and emotional power, nothing compares with "King Lear." I also enjoy the artful juxtaposition of the main theme - the betrayals of Lear's two eldest daughters and the follies of an aging patriarch -with the Gloucester subplot. The parallelism of the two reveals the depths of each, and for sheer pathos nothing can compare with the meeting of a blind Gloucester and a mad Lear on the heath. For the sonnets, my tastes run to Sonnet 73 - "That time of year thou may'st in me behold..." - because it is a sober reflection on mortality and our common end. These works speak to my most visceral sense, but "Hamlet," that wondrous "poem unlimited" has no peer in all of literature for its verbal pyrotechnics and its receding depths. But enough of this shameless bardolatry...
2007-12-07 12:37:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I rather enjoy Sonnet 18 " Shall I compare thee to a summers day", I think it is pretty good. My favorite play would have to be "A midsummer Night's Dream"
2007-12-07 13:05:12 · answer #4 · answered by GL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely, Macbeth
2007-12-07 12:27:25 · answer #5 · answered by rollie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i love twelfth night..
love it love it love it.
2007-12-07 12:33:48 · answer #6 · answered by ditzydory 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋