And for the peace of you I hold such strife
unstressed: and, the, of, I, such stressed: for, peace, you, hold, strife shakespeare stresses the words for, peace, you, hold and strife because they have a different meaning than the unstressed words that are used as a transition.
And for the peace of you I hold such strife As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found; Now proud as an enjoyer and anon 5 Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure,
This part means that the happiness she brings him also gives him an inner conflict that he compares to a miser and his money, stating that if he spends his money or love in this case, she will steal his money, or break his heart.
Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, Or gluttoning on all, or all away.
If this poem was read to me I would kind of be offended by it because Shakespeare is basically saying that he will keep a girl around whether he wants anything to do with her or not.
miser
definition: a person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible
So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
unstressed: so, you, my, as, to stressed: are, to, thoughts, food, life
filching
definition: steal in a casual way
surfeit
definition: an excessive amount of something
So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground; And for the peace of you I hold such strife As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found; Now proud as an enjoyer and anon 5 Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure, Now counting best to be with you alone, Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure; Sometime all full with feasting on your sight And by and by clean starved for a look; 10 Possessing or pursuing no delight, Save what is had or must from you be took. Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, Or gluttoning on all, or all away.
The rhyme schemes in my poem are abab, cdcd, efef gg
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight And by and by clean starved for a look;
This is the volta because he is saying how although he enjoys her present, he is sometimes starved by it.
“The theatre is all about imagining yourself as other than you are.”
I agree with this quote because you'll never know what Shakespeare was truly inspired by because he is dead and can't answer that question himself.
Four hundred years after the death of our national poet, and the subsequent landing of the Mayflower, the playwright who is an icon of Englishness has also become a central feature of the American dream, in which the mirror of his great dramas gets held up to a society perpetually in search of itself.
If Shakespeare died at the same time as the landing of the Mayflower, could it be that maybe the "American" influence of his writing technically still be English?