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My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. Kiya's gift. I love it!
Off the Cuff / My Other Journal
#641218 added March 19, 2009 at 2:50pm
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Shakespeare’s Portrait is not Shakespeare’s !
The portrait found in Ireland, in the family collection of a gentleman, claimed to be a life-painting of the Bard, is now said it is not what it was. Hahaha! The portrait was painted in 1610 or around that time, of a 46 year-old man, the image now attributed to an aristocrat. Like it is a choice!

Well, I’d rather Shakespeare not be an aristocrat, anyhow. I enjoy Shakespeare, and aristocrats give me the creeps.

While stuffing ferrets down one’s trousers, as the fool in King Lear uttered, our present day haggling whether a portrait belongs to him or not would sound like the biggest joke to Shakespeare. I can just picture him in my mind’s eye, laughing doubled up at this--from the other side.

And even funnier is a recent theater blog in which the writer asks if Shakespeare’s jokes can be made funnier, since from being outdated, they do not sound funny anymore.

Just look here, fellas. There are funnier sounding things on this side of the ocean than any Shakespeare stuff or his dethroned portrait. We have AIG bonuses; since the renegotiation or confiscation of them is out of the question, they are now being discussed in the congress for passing a law against them, a law that taxes them 90%. I wonder what the Bard would say to that. Maybe something like: “It is no act of common passage, but a strain of rareness.” or “There’s a skirmish of wit between them. Much Ado about Nothing.”

Concerning all this AIG fiasco, among others, maybe my giggling can “put a girdle around the earth in forty minutes.” After all, this is life’s uncertain voyage, and we have seen better days. *Wink*

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