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

[eofs.livejournal.com]

I meant Cassio *blushes* (To think I've actually studied that play twice!) I actually typed Cassio at first, but decided it was my fingers getting into the rhythm of all those o names and changed it.

Meh, never seen Hamlet, but I had a feeling it was where that speech came from. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen the play it's from, but that's less of a help than it ought to be.

[conuly]

No, no, no you really DID mean Cassius. As in

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Lol, I actually genuinely meant Cassio. Should have kept my mouth shut really ;0)

[conuly]

*huglaughs*

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Sounds painful. Like you're hugging me and then suddenly dissolve into a fit of violent giggles, causing you to squeeze my abdomen so hard that all of my internal organs pop out through my nose and go splay all over the floor and for the rest of my life everywhere I go people would point and laugh and say "look, there goes Emma-no-organs. She has no organs, ha ha ha ha ha!" And then I'd have to go and live on my own in the mountains in my hermitage until one day a boy comes along with two talking horses and I reveal that he's actually a prince and he goes back to the land where he belongs and where talking animals are the norm.

But I suspect you probably didn't intend it that way.

[conuly]

*stares*

*backs away verrrrrry sloooooooowly*

[eofs.livejournal.com]

*Smiles sweetly*

Aren't you glad you encouraged me to get an LJ ;0)

[conuly]

And yes, you HAVE seen the play that quote is from, you studied it in school.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Iago? (That's in a sort of "I think this is right, 'cos a little voice is saying Emma, listen to me, I'm right but I'm not too confident that the little voice is telling the truth" voice *nods*)

And as it happens, I haven't seen Othello. Well, not on stage, I've only seen the Fishburne/Branagh film version. (And I'm assuming now that you do mean Othello as you have no way of knowing what other Shakespeare I've studied. Do you? *Casts eyes around nervously*)

[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.)