A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), 1600
Ατμόσφαιρα: θαυμασμός, χαρά και χιούμορ. Μιλά για την αγάπη, τη φύση και την τέχνη.
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I know a banke where the wilde time blowes,Where Oxslips and the nodding Violet growes,Quite ouer-cannoped with luscious woodbine,With sweet muske roses, and with Eglantine;There sleepes Tytania, sometime of the night,Lul’d in these flowers, with dances and delight:And there the snake throwes her enammel’d skinne,Weed wide enough to rap a Fairy in. We Hermia, like two Artificiall gods,Haue with our needles, created both one flower,Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,Both warbling of one song, both in one key:As if our hands, our sides, voices, and mindesHad beene incorporate. So we grew together,Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,But yet a vnion in partition,Two louely berries molded on one stem,So with two seeming bodies, but one heart,Two of the first life coats in Heraldry,Due but to one and crowned with one crest.And will you rent our ancient loue asunder,To ioyne with men in scorning your poore friend? Swift as a shadow, short as any dreame,Briefe as the lightning in the collied night,That (in a spleene) vnfolds both heauen and earth;And ere a man hath power to say, behold,The iawes of darkness do deuoure it vp:So quicke bright things come to confusion Βιβλία με παρόμοια αίσθηση
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- Πώς είναι το «A Midsummer Night's Dream»;
- Ατμόσφαιρα: θαυμασμός, χαρά και χιούμορ. Μιλά για την αγάπη, τη φύση και την τέχνη.
- Τι να διαβάσω μετά το «A Midsummer Night's Dream»;
- Αν σου άρεσε το «A Midsummer Night's Dream», δοκίμασε «Πειθώ» (Jane Austen), «Far from the Madding Crowd» (Thomas Hardy) και «Λάμια» (John Keats).
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Η μοναξιά να βρίσκεσαι στο ίδιο δωμάτιο με έναν παλιό έρωτα.
They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs. Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy (Anne could allow no other exception even among the married couples), there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.
Πειθώ · Jane Austen
What happens to a woman who has never needed anyone, the first time she does.
Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.
Far from the Madding Crowd · Thomas Hardy
Λαμπερή από την κορφή ως τα νύχια, κι όμως θλιμμένη με κάποιον τρόπο.
She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue, Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr’d; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolv’d, or brighter shone, or interwreathed Their lustres with the gloomier tapestries— So rainbow-sided, touch’d with miseries, She seem’d, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon’s mistress, or the demon’s self. Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire Sprinkled with stars, like Ariadne’s tiar: Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet! She had a woman’s mouth with all its pearls complete:
Λάμια · John Keats
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