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Hamlet and I.

by laurafraser 

Posted: 28 February 2005
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To be or not to be said Hamlet.
To do or not to do, said I.
Hamlet sat and said think about it:
I simply turned away.






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Beanie Baby at 14:57 on 28 February 2005  Report this post
This is funny, Laura. You seem to have a thing about Shakespeare at the moment (not that there's anything wrong with that - he seems to be getting in everywhere - have you seen the jeans ad on TV? It is really amazing!). As someone whose preferred poetry form is haiku and tanka, this little beauty almost has a tanka-ush feel to it. It is very profound and deep and the last line - "I simply turned away" - really roundsi it off beautifully.
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laurafraser at 15:53 on 28 February 2005  Report this post
Tahnk-you Beanie,

yes William seems to be occupying my thoughts at the moment have half my dissertation in soon and he is half of my english degree-oh the joys of being able to simply turn away from the things that you don't like and for them never to haunt you...
thanks for comments and for reading

XLaura
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Hamburger Yogi & PBW at 05:06 on 01 March 2005  Report this post
Do you mind if I comment only on the content?

Albert Camus would agree with you. During the 50s he had arguments with Sartre about the 'being/doing' distinction (no longer a trendy topic).

To be fair, we should accept Hamlet's credentials as an effective agent. For he decided to ACT and trap the usurper and thereby make himself a target for the 'the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune' - he wasn't just a thinker.

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laurafraser at 16:01 on 02 March 2005  Report this post
Hamburger Yogi,

RE Sartre and Camus' arguments with one another and it being "no longer a trendy topic" there is always room for the comeback kid (look at Hilary Swank at the Oscars...) but only if they have something new to say...
aware that Hamlet and I is not really adding anything sparklingly original, but I think it is an argument that began way before those wonderful thinkers to the time when Adam first learnt to blush.

I agree that Hamlet can be seen as "an...agent" but am not entirely convinced by how effective he is, was he not a victim of his own thought in the end?

but yes i agree that he wan't just a thinker in that no one can be entirely a 'do-er' either, therein lies one of the truths about being human-we are never wholly one thing...(at least i think!)

really appreciateyour comments, thank-you.

LAura
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