And as a stranger to my heart and me
After talking about women and how they are treated in "Shakespeare time" this conversation is the perfect example of just how men were. He literally wants to disown his daughter just because she will have to give more of her time to her husband. Women were just discarded, and I thought this related well to today's conversation.
To his conveyance I assign my wife,
We discussed in class the terms "husband" and "wife", and as I married woman, I feel stupid not knowing specifically what the term "wife" meant - coming from the term maid. This sentence is almost a perfect example of this entirely. If my husband ever said to another man that I was "assigned" to do anything, I'd tell him to bugger off.
A segregation of the Turkish fleet:
Today we discussed in class the timelines of each act. I originally thought that this particular act is somewhat hard to determine time in the way that these ships are coming ashore in different times, but when re-reading it is seems much shorter since it is a continuous conversation. If I could re-do the discussion I would say the first part of this act occurs over a day.
And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio,Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,
I really wish I could just annotate this whole scene, it actually infuriates me! There is so much "back stabbing" and the whole situation is just a mess of misconceptions, and it makes the vein on my forehead pop out! First of all Roderigo is so pathetic that he can't even tell he's being duped, and then tragically fails at his attempt to kill Casio. Then Iago basically fakes that he didn't know what was happening to Cassio and saves him and kills Roderigo, it's just so tragic! Seeing this unfold from the outside makes it so suspenseful, and makes me want to scream!
Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,Sans witchcraft could not
Brabantio is possible inferring that Othello has been using magic or witchcraft to seduce Desdemona. While getting dads "blessing" certainly would have seemed important, Barbatio isn't nearly as interested in this as he is about seeing Othello punished for use of witchcraft.
Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crownEven in your hearts, there will he rake for it:
I love the Exeter's words in this scene. They are so malevolent, and almost threatening, telling the King of France that this will end in bloodshed, unless he backs down. I love the saying "rake for it", its truly tortuous as he is describing the violence and a certain loyalty of protecting the King's heir to the throne.
Awake remembrance of these valiant deadAnd with your puissant arm renew their feats:
Ely actually encourages King Henry, when he reminds him that his ancestors or predecessors had their own successes and that Henry should remember these and reign with this confidence of success. He further explains that their blood runs through his veins making his ease of success a reality.
The courses of his youth promised it not.The breath no sooner left his father's body,But that his wildness, mortified in him,
I love this scene and this sequence in particular. Canterbury is talking "smack" to Eli about Henry, saying that he wouldn't expect Henry to act the way that he does based off who and how he acted as a child. He continues to say that once his father died, that his child-like innocence and possibly misbehavior did as well. I like this conversation because we get to learn a little more about Henry.
So thou, thyself outgoing in thy noon: Unlook'd, on diest unless thou get a son.
I think these lines are a little more dirty than we are giving them credit for. "Thyself outgoing" or going until exhaustion or exhausting ones self, "in thy noon" noon meaning highest point of the day, and comparing that to sexual arousal. So "thyself outgoing in thy noon" may actually be referring to masturbation? "diest" if we are assuming the provocative nature of the previous text could be referencing orgasm, and conceive a "son" child.
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.For where is she so fair whose unear'd wombDisdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
These lines are very interesting to me. First Shakespeare talks about cheating the world by taking away a mothers blessing to be a mother. While the woman is "fair" or beautiful she still does not bear a child, "unear'd" or unsexed I would say. And "disdains" or unworthy of the "tillage" or sexing of a man. While this is all said so beautifully, it is very perverse.
From heaven to hell is flown away.
This is not the first time Shakespeare has written about heaven and hell in his sonnets, and the imagery continues throughout the later sonnets. However, this sonnet unlike earlier ones have more of a relieving end, when the lover says, "not you", thus not hating the poet.
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves
I love this line because Shakespeare once again is giving us an idea of time, or time of year more over. His symbolism of time is often portrayed through weather, and change, such as "barren of leaves". While many of his indications to time are included a lot of his symbols to me actually seem "timeless".
But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
I think in this couplet he is describing how beauty can be preserved. However it is hard to distinguish exactly what "flowers distill'd" means, I would think that he may be referencing some type of essence of beauty, smell, or physicality of a fresh bloomed flower compared to that of a wilted dead one in winter. "Their substance still lives sweet" references preserving that beauty through the change of season.