Added: Dec 5, 2008
From: msbunburyist
Duration: 0:53
#97How like a winter hath my absence beenFrom thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year?What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen?What old December's bareness everywhere?And yet this time remov'd was summer's time,The teeming autumn big with rich increase,Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,Like widowed wombs after their lord's decease:Yet this aboundant issue seem'd to me,But hope of orphans, and un-fathered fruit,For Summer and his pleasures wait on thee,And thou away, the very birds are mute.Or if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer,That leaves look pale, dreading the winters near.This one's for Nick.I am in the process of reading all Shakespeare's sonnets. My interpretations are drawn from the 1609 quarto as emended by C.D. Atkins.
Channel: Education
Tags: 097 aloud iambic meter pentameter poetry read shakespeare sonnet
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msbunburyist Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Thank you! I considered that "abundant"/"aboundant" point, but I decided that I liked the idea of "aboundant" just as much - so I read it thus. :)
7horianfiddler Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - I like the way u have on this video: it is more esoteric read-aloud than a simple philological approach! 5 stars!
msbunburyist Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Thank you!
cdatkins353 Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Very nice! I especially liked the way you read the couplet. "Aboundant" is a spelling variant of "abundant" and could just as well be pronounced the modern way.