Wednesday, 6 April 2011

My two years with SHAKESPEARE..!!

It was then,when I passed out my 8th standard and we found our new books....with a new syllabus.......Actually we were the first batch of our school to enter to the world of SHAKESPEARE~concisely!!To be more precise......it was a world of puns,EVER-HEAVY words,rhetoric speeches,sarcastic remarks.......and some dialogues which are still BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION even today!!........But thats not my total mistake.....even our english teachers were uncertain regarding some SECRET DIALOGUES!! To overcome this fix........we bought 2 or more  guide books.........but there began a new fix!!.....each book had its own explanation......n we used to be tangled.......Now what could we do????!!.......If we wrote wrong, our Teacher would surely strike it off  BRUTALLY!!....Then we tried our EVER-BEST SHREWED GUESSWORKS at each exam!!Lucky ones would fetch the marks LUCKILY and those whose lucks were badly out,just SHRINKED their faces!!I too could be counted among those lucky ones.Now back to the BARD's work!!.......Ah that Bard,whose BEST BUT YET WORST works troubled us for continuously 2 years!!His outstanding puns,had FORKED meanings........but yet we speculated our own ideas..........which were far far BEYOND the supposed meanings!!His heavy words.....though heavy,just FLEW UP above our heads as if they were the LIGHTEST THINGS in this world....!!

I too used to get frustrated when I used to come up with those HEAVY WORDS in some proses and poetries............I just cursed them out of my frustrations cum LAZINESS....I wondered why the wordsmiths have developed those words....!!That was my view untill I took the TROUBLE TO OPEN A DICTIONARY........for me it was the KEY INGREDIENT to LIGHTEN those heavy words.......!!But now my ERA had begun!!Now I've begun to use those BULKY but CLUMSY words.......For me it was now my PLEASURE but for others,  <who were still like the past-me or had  hectic schedules :AS THE CASE MAY BE>it was still a SORT OF FRUSTRATION!!.......For this tenor only, my batch-mates named me HUMAN-DIC!!........Oh what an auspicious name!!I was flying in the airs when my english teacher<who inspired me to improve my english> gave me a BLOWING REMARK!!Literally it blew me up....opening my eyes.......to consider the CONDITIONS OF MY FELLOW COMPANIONS!!And that was right even.......because BIG WORDS would never convey your true emotions....they'll only cause SHORT CIRCUITS in your reader's mind !!and moreover  FRUSTRATIONS  are the only emotions,you can develop in your reader's mind if you choose to use THE MASSIVE WORDS!!And as far a I know......you would not prefer to spoil your dear reader's mind who would always approach you with a hope to get some amusing stuff.......PERHAPS!!

Oh my......sorry I just got out from the main stream of my topic........So I was talking about Shakespeare..........Yes........Even though his work<AS YOU LIKE IT>,was a mean to aid to my vocabulary ,I was still escaping from it!!It was not for the words........but his puns which he cleverly used!!I could have appreciated it more if he could have left the easy translations...........But alas due to this mistake........he was cursed by the 118 students<approx>**of our batch**!!But a sigh of relief for us was that.....this time no such puns came in the mains!!

Anyways.....now we aren't going to study it anymore..........but still,even after our exams,I'm trying to figure out the SUPPOSED MEANINGS of those PUNY but yet SUBTLE PUNS!!

5 comments:

  1. ...u proved it ryt !!!!!!!!dear....u executed it without the heavy wrds...n abt shakespear ..i wud say ...i m sure tht while writing the speeches of touchstone he... perhaps had tken a sip of wine!!!thts y ...tht wine has its effect till nw....!!!!!;)

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  2. well..i say~ GR88 JOB "GRL"!!! yet wud surely lyk 2 b a critic~ it ws never-ever in dis worldly world dat Renu ma'am n Sindhu ma'am were TANGLED UP in d "PUN-full" remarks or rather dialogues... it was jst dat d "DRUNKEN WIZARD",2 b more precise mah 2nd love, was nt nly a PHSYCO(xceptions r der) bt even a ~ VULGAR COMIC, n thus d story begins of a mere "CO.ED" VIDYALAYAA..!! :P

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  3. ....jst 1 thing 2 say realy a gr8 job yrr....nd really d drunken shakespere gave a lot of problems also........nd well said vidzz d "VULGUR COMIC".....!!;)

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  4. i jst cant biliv dis is by my sis!!!! best luc behna, aise hi rehna... u r on d verge of xcelence...i'm deeply proud of u...Best Wishes!

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