Dave and His Damn Poetry: A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted...
I'm probably reading too much into this.
I'm compiling materials for my lesson plans this semester and I found sonnet #20, which is the one that Dave is always reciting to girls. Now, what interests me is that in the interpretation of this poem, it is actually addressed from a man TO a man, who by "Nature's own hand painted" has the face of a woman and a gentle heart without the fickleness and dishonest nature.
Should we read this from Leah to Dave, as she is dating a man who is as a woman? Or do we take this poem, which is one of the ones that apparently demonstraits Shakespeare's less than heteroness, and read the choice onto Dave's character? If not directed at himself, who else does Dave love, who he lets women treasure the body but his soul?
I'd read it as Dave/Adam, but that's just me. You'd think after a point, Dave would realize what he was really looking for, considering which poem he 'chose' (or flip through the book and put his finger on). Come out the closet, Dave!
A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion;
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling,
Much steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou first created;
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,
And by addition me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,
Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.
I'm compiling materials for my lesson plans this semester and I found sonnet #20, which is the one that Dave is always reciting to girls. Now, what interests me is that in the interpretation of this poem, it is actually addressed from a man TO a man, who by "Nature's own hand painted" has the face of a woman and a gentle heart without the fickleness and dishonest nature.
Should we read this from Leah to Dave, as she is dating a man who is as a woman? Or do we take this poem, which is one of the ones that apparently demonstraits Shakespeare's less than heteroness, and read the choice onto Dave's character? If not directed at himself, who else does Dave love, who he lets women treasure the body but his soul?
I'd read it as Dave/Adam, but that's just me. You'd think after a point, Dave would realize what he was really looking for, considering which poem he 'chose' (or flip through the book and put his finger on). Come out the closet, Dave!
A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion;
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling,
Much steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou first created;
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,
And by addition me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,
Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.