Ten Syllables

Here is my Anglo-Saxon Poem I wrote, by the way. The answer is at the bottom.

Viewers of King’s birth,
Shiny, and known by name

Heaven-dwellers are used
By bone-houses

Watched by water-ropes
To prove wrong meaning

Trust bright, bold, beauty
Marked by their Maker

To truly catch one- failure
Unless wished

Created fourth day
To give light to all

One will burn like torch
Turning water bad,

Making people die
In iron-shower.

Watching old night-ravager
Fail, trying

To kill the passage
Of salvation

Finding a whale-road
Greatest reflection

I am a night-wanderer
Seeking

And though I am not true,
I am guiding.


Answer: Star

The fact that we've been studying the book of Revelation helped with some of the hints, such as the "old night-ravager", which is actually the dragon talked about in Revelation 12.

Ten Syllables (Again)

I've been reading and discussing Beowulf for school, and for an assignment, had to write an riddle in Anglo-Saxon format. I chose to do one on a star. The format is ten syllables a line. I was reading the Shakespeare Stealer the other day, and I found out something interesting... Shakespeare wrote in the same format as Beowulf. Take a line from A Midsummer Night's Dream for instance:

Helena: Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray.
My legs are longer, though, to run away!

They are both ten syllables each.

Here's a line from a poem in Beowulf, written in Anglo-Saxon format:

"Sigemund's name was known everywhere."

This one is also ten syllables.
This just gave me an eppiphany, and I thought it was pretty interesting...

Hi there--
I have been unable to attend Shakespeare for the past two weeks, due to a cold, cough, and otherwise...
Anyhow, I would like to start a discussion going on the topic of Hamlet... any takers who have read it? If there are any other plays of interest that would like to be discussed, please let me know.

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone:-)

A Slight Summary of Hamlet

Sorry it took so long to update from last Thursday:P. How busy does life get, especially with Christmas coming up...

Anyhow, we can still (I think!) catch up on last week. We started reading Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", which I think is a simply fascinating tale. It is basically about a ghost which appears before Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, and tells him to avenge his father's death. Hamlet, however, is debating if he can, and should, trust the ghost, as the murderer, his uncle Claudius, is now king, and therefore well-protected from any danger Hamlet might offer. After getting into a fight and killing someone, though, Hamlet is now in true conflict with the king his uncle, and commits himself to violent revenge. Hamlet is then sent to England to be killed; and then returns to Denmark and confronts Laertes at his lover Ophelia’s funeral, and then comes the deaths of the royal family. Although everyone dies in a tragedy, Mrs. Ward reminds us that there is always someone who will carry it on.

But before any discussion happened, we played a new version of Duck, duck, goose!, and played Duck, Duck, Hamlet instead- which was, indeed, loads of fun:-) Another truly fantasic Thursday~

"Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage, for the Lord thy GOD is with thee, withersoever thou goest." -Joshua 1:9

Shakespeare is tomorrow- I'm glad to get back after a couple weeks' vacation. Something exciting and new is always going on, and I can't wait to see what it will be.

Before Shakespeare is CBS early in the morning; we're going through Revelations, currently in Revelations 9. Excitment fills the air- the children's group is going to be singing Christmas carols tomorrow for the parents:-)

Hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving! Comment on something to be thankful for, please- it will be interesting to see all the different things:-)

There did happen to be Shakespeare class on Thursday. Our mentor, Mrs. Ward, gave us several sheets of famous quotes from Richard III, the play we were studying. I teamed up with my friend Burgundy, and together we made up a scene using one of those lines each.

Burgandy, by herself on stage: "So wise, so young, they say, do never live long." Then on I rushed, and said, "The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom!" (they died). Then we both burst out in sighs and weeping. Fun, fun:-)

We also watched a little bit of my favorite version of "Midsummer Night's Dream"; that was great to see, too, and even the first part was funny to watch:-)

Hey! Monday night was our Shakespeare class's Scenes and Soliloquies night. Everyone met at a family's farm, and we all did different scenes, monologues, and sonnets. I did a Juliet monologue with my sister, Alexandrea. Other varying scenes/monologues. were from Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, and Richard III. It was a wonderful night and everyone did fantastic jobs:-)

There will be no class this Thursday; so sad! And there will not be a class next week- Thanksgiving break-yippee!

Hi everyone! Well, I decided to finally create my new blog... and am I ever excited. I attend an awesome Shakespeare class, and we do real plays of the real thing. We learn the history behind the play, and learn the language. Last year we discussed King Lear (pics coming soon). I was the oldest daughter, Goneril, in that, and the way my director taught me is what made me want to go back- again and again and again...

I'll be editing the blog often, so check back in!