School Poetry and Shakespeare

[lucky_kari <lucky_kari@yahoo.ca>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" 
<kcawte at b...> wrote:
> And how many other people around here were forced to learn certain 
parts of
> Shakespeare etc at school and can *still* quote the darn things? 

That'd be Johnson for me. From Grade Five. My personal Snape was 
quite stuck on this poem. IIRC, it went like this. 

Weep with me, all you who read this little story. 
And know for whom a tear is shed, death's self is sorry. 
'Twas a child that so did thrive in grace and feature.
That heaven and nature seemed to strive which owned the creature....

And so on. I recite this out of the blue at social occasions quite 
often.

I would have liked reading Shakespeare, if only my fellow students 
weren't such horrible readers. In "King Lear" I was chewing the 
furniture reading Edmund, and everyone else was stumbling through 
their lines. 

Eileen