693 years ago today, Petrarch had his first vision of his dream girl. So of course we’re honoring Petrarch with a Shakesperean sonnet.
Category: Shakespeare
Hamlet calls the Poetry Crisis Line
Mad President negotiates with Mad Prince
William Shakespeare calls the Poetry Crisis Line
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Poets Answer an Age-Old Question: Why did the chicken cross the road? [Part 1]
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A:
William Shakespeare
To cross or not to cross—that is the question!
Whether ‘tis nobler in the coop to suffer
The pecks and scratches of aggressive chickens
Or set foot upon a dusty roadway
And so, with your toes spread, cross it.
Walt Whitman
O chicken, my chicken
The fearful path is wide
But still you walked across the road
To reach the other side.
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not cross the road
A chicken crossed for me
And pecked the doorbell that would ring
Apartment number three.
If Shakespeare had corporate sponsors
Mark Antony calls the Poetry Crisis Line (mark III)
Mark Antony calls the Poetry Crisis Line (mark II)
Mark Antony calls the Poetry Crisis Line (version 1)
Hamlet’s Solimericks
Iambic pentameter revolutionized English poetry. But what if, instead of importing an Italian verse form, Shakespeare had instead looked to the next island to the west?
