{"id":1465,"date":"2008-10-17T00:53:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T06:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2008-10-19T05:56:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T11:56:02","slug":"poetry-friday-shakespeare-to-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1465","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: Shakespeare to Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, as performed by Yohangza Theatre Company from Korea. This has nothing to do with what my husband is doing in Seoul, but it looks cool. Click to learn more.<\/a>My husband happens to be in Seoul, South Korea at the moment. I took him to the airport Wednesday morning, and he’ll get back on Monday afternoon. It’s not that long to be apart, especially for us – he’s a theatrical set designer, and frequently travels for weeks at a time for his design gigs. But it is definitely the farthest apart geographically<\/em> that we have ever been – even before we knew each other. So I’m feeling a little sentimental, and wanted to choose something with him in mind. Here’s Sonnet XCVII<\/strong><\/a> from the patron saint of all thespians, William Shakespeare:<\/p>\n

How like a winter hath my absence been
\nFrom thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
\nWhat freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
\nWhat old December’s bareness everywhere!
\nAnd yet this time remov’d was summer’s time,
\nThe teeming autumn, big with rich increase,
\nBearing the wanton burthen of the prime,
\nLike widow’d wombs after their lords’ decease:
\nYet this abundant issue seem’d to me
\nBut hope of orphans and unfather’d fruit;
\nFor summer and his pleasures wait on thee,
\nAnd thou away, the very birds are mute;
\nOr if they sing, ’tis with so dull a cheer
\nThat leaves look pale, dreading the winter’s near. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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My ol’ pal Becky at Becky’s Book Reviews<\/strong><\/a> (who has the most beautiful header in all of book-blogdom) is handling the Poetry Friday round-up this week. Do pay her a visit, won’t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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