Another meme modification...

[conuly]

There's one going around now that has people guessing songs by lyrics you post in your journal. Unfortunately, I tend to listen to "classical" music (actually, most of it is Baroque....) and don't often have words to post.

So I decided to go with somewhat snobby option two and just post lines from poems I like and have memorized. One point for guessing the poet, one for guessing the title, three for guessing both. Winner gets a whole lot of points.

1. Tyger, Tyger, burning bright!

2. The little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near

3. Prophet, said I, thing of evil! Prophet still if bird or devil!

4. Cannon to the right of them! Cannon to the left of them!

5. The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

6. The lark, still bravely singing flies, scarce heard amidst the guns below

Be warned, my punctuation is erratic.

7. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows

8. He thinks too much, such men are dangerous

9. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight?

10. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace!

Comments

[conuly]

Didn't you say earlier that you studied macbeth and it reminded you of the raven and this is a hugeass hint so you'd better damn well be grateful?

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Well I'm guessing it's a hugeass hint that it's from Macbeth. But I have never studied Macbeth - we used about a page or so extract from it as a stimulus, but I've not read the full play. I've not technically seen it - last year the year 12s did a version of it, but it wasn't the play proper. So I'm going to have to guess.

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" - seems like he's worrying about tomorrow ;0) I wanna say Macbeth, or possibly Duncan, but I really don't know the play well at all (I meant to read it recently but didn't.) Bla. Some Shakespeare lover I am :0(

I'm going to bed *yawns*

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Grr, I mean MacDuff not Duncan. Should definitely go to bed... (but got caught up reading an interview with possibly my favourite director, about a production of Macbeth he did.)