We started reading Hamlet today. It's amazing what raunchy stuff young children are being made to read these days...
Our teacher is really awesome though! He tells us all naughty sexual parts and goes into detail about the scandalous poems throughout history. I'm looking for Christina Rosseti's Goblin Market just now. Then I have to find Thoughts in a Garden by Andrew Marvell, a poet I've loved ever since I read his To His Coy Mistress for the IGCSE. I'll post you To His Coy Mistress sometime. Have you read Marvell Metamatician? He's far from brooding and dark, but you might like him. I'm also a brooding poem type, but he's my exception.
But back to Shakespeare, apparently Twelfth Night is also full of sex. OORMILA, do you know what an opportunity you've let up by not mentioning it in class? You wouldn't have had any problems with our grade. Honestly, you're no better than Ms.Anila who says "Physical attraction and ahemmm...things of that sort" for even mildly suggestive paragraphs. This is really bad analysis.
posted by Arvind~* @ 12:19 pm
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Maybe this way your straitlaced school fits some sex education in -- a point seemingly missed by Anila, though ...
Yeah! Go Pallavi!!!!
I always feel students like bashing the teacher, NO MATTER WHAT... Talk freely about sex and the teacher becomes a perv. Gloss over it and the teacher is being a prude.And frankly, in your school, no matter what you say, it is always politically incorrect ( trust me, I taught you guys and I know the repercussions). I am not pointing at just the students, I am very much pointing at my fellow colleagues too. Share an innocent comment and it is blown out of proportion. So, if the tecaher is toeing a cautious line,I think she is being wise.Yeah, it is the students who can't handle sex coz it is just in the 3 dimensions of their imagination at this point in their lives.For us, who have gone and had it,we know it is no big deal.. ;-)
It's really not that kind of sex talk that I'm talking about. It's all the juicy society scandal details of a sexual nature that I'm talking about. Some people believe Shakespeare might have been gay because of the wafts of it that come through every play of his, and because he left his wife his second best bed, and the (we think) Earl of Southhampton his best one in his will.
Elizabethan gossip is what I mean. Thats what an English HL class needs for a true understanding of the times. We'd never be able to appreciate Shakespeare so much unless we knew his times, as Ms. Selina always told me.
We do NOT, and do not WANT to see sex in 3 dimensions, Oormila.
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