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==T.S. Eliot Reading "A Game of Chess"== | ==T.S. Eliot Reading "A Game of Chess"== | ||
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==Lines 77-96== | ==Lines 77-96== | ||
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As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene | As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene | ||
Lines 97-98 | Lines 97-98 | ||
| − | From | + | From ''Paradise Lost''. |
A Silvan Scene, and as the ranks ascend | A Silvan Scene, and as the ranks ascend | ||
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===Ovid=== | ===Ovid=== | ||
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| + | Above the antique mantel was displayed | ||
| + | As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene | ||
| + | The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king | ||
| + | So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale | ||
| + | Filled all the desert with inviolable voice | ||
| + | And still she cried, and still the world pursues, | ||
| + | “Jug Jug” to dirty ears. | ||
| + | Lines 97-103 | ||
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| + | From ''Metamorphosis, VI Philomela'' | ||
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| + | Throughout ''Metamorphosis'' there is constant mention of birds creating sounds. | ||
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| + | Only a cock stood on the rooftree | ||
| + | Co co rico co co rico | ||
| + | In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust | ||
| + | Bringing rain | ||
==Lines 104-110== | ==Lines 104-110== | ||
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==Lines 111-127== | ==Lines 111-127== | ||
| − | == | + | ===William Shakespeare=== |
| − | == | + | Those are pearls that were his eyes. |
| + | Line 125 | ||
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| + | From ''The Tempest'' | ||
| + | Ferdinand: | ||
| + | Full fathom five thy father lies; | ||
| + | Of his bones are coral made; | ||
| + | Those are pearls that were his eyes: | ||
| + | Nothing of him that doth fade | ||
| + | But doth suffer a sea-change | ||
| + | Into something rich and strange. | ||
| + | Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell | ||
| + | ''I.ii The island. Before PROSPERO'S cell.'' | ||
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| + | ===John Webster=== | ||
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| + | “What is that noise?” | ||
| + | The wind under the door. | ||
| + | Line 117-18 | ||
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| + | From a Jacobian tragedy stageplay ''The Devil's Case'' | ||
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| + | “Is the wind in that door still?” | ||
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| + | ==Lines 128-138== | ||
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| + | ===The Mysterious Rag=== | ||
| + | O O O O that Shakespeherian rag— | ||
| + | It's so elegant | ||
| + | So intelligent | ||
| + | Lines 128-30 | ||
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| + | A popular song called "The Mysterious Rag" by Irving Berlin in 1911 | ||
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| + | Go to: [[Video#That_Mysterious_Rag]] | ||
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| + | ===Thomas Middleton=== | ||
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| + | The hot water at ten. | ||
| + | And if it rains, a closed car at four. | ||
| + | And we shall play a game of chess, | ||
| + | Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door. | ||
| + | Lines 135-38 | ||
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| + | From ''Women Beware Women'' I.II | ||
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| + | It appears from the following passage in our poet's Game Chess that the pieces now called rooks were sometimes formerly called dukes | ||
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| + | Error. There's the full number of the game | ||
| + | Kings and their pawns queens bishops | ||
| + | Knights and dukes | ||
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| + | Ign. Dukes they re called rookes by some | ||
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| + | Error. Corruptively | ||
| + | Le Roc fi the word Custodie de la Roch | ||
| + | The Keeper of the Forts | ||
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| + | ==Lines 139-172== | ||
===William Shakespeare=== | ===William Shakespeare=== | ||
| + | Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night. | ||
| + | Line 172 | ||
| − | Go | + | From Hamlet, a line by Ophelia IV.V |
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| + | '''OPHELIA''' | ||
| + | I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I | ||
| + | cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him | ||
| + | i' the cold ground. My brother shall know of it: | ||
| + | and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my | ||
| + | coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; | ||
| + | good night, good night. | ||
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