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The Quotes Thread (Lear, Poetry, Comparative)

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  • 09-06-2010 4:35pm
    #1
    Feeky Magee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭


    Post some usable (or is it 'useable'?) quotes from King Lear, poetry, or the comparative course, and maybe the context in which you could use them. Simples!

    Lear:

    "    [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]'Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever
    but slenderly known himself."

    "    [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
    To have a thankless child!"

    "    [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
    Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:
    I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness."

    [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man."

    "    [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods.
    They kill us for their sport."    [/FONT]
    [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
    Those quotes would be useful for a character development question, which is what I'm banking on.    [/FONT]
    [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
    Poetry:

    (Longley) "    [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]He was preparing an Ulster fry for breakfast
    When someone walked into the kitchen and shot him:
    A bullet entered his mouth and pierced his skull"    [/FONT]

    (Longley) "[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]shot through the head
    By a shivering boy who wandered in... I think 'Sorry Missus' was what he said"    [/FONT]
    [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
    (Yeats) "    [/FONT]And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow"

    (Yeats) "Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
    Whatever is begotten, born, and dies"

    Comparative:

    Nothing learned for this yet. :(
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    [/FONT]


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    #2
    ajjmk
    Registered Users Posts: 338 ✭✭ajjmk


    Feeky Magee wrote: »

    Comparative:

    Nothing learned for this yet. :(

    you dont need quotes for comparative.. :cool:


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    Doyler92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭Doyler92


    ajjmk wrote: »
    you dont need quotes for comparative.. :cool:


    This is true. All you need is reference.


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    Feeky Magee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Feeky Magee


    Could a mod change the misspelling of 'quotes' please?


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    Mwah
    Registered Users Posts: 182 ✭✭Mwah


    id feel better filling up my answer with quotes :P


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    Feeky Magee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Feeky Magee


    Yeah I'm definitely putting quotes in my comparative. If nothing else it increases the word count. :D


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    Feeky Magee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Feeky Magee


    Well this went wonderfully well... :P


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    Paddi Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭Paddi Jones


    "Let me alone." ~ Lear, Act III, Scene III.


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    curlypops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭curlypops


    ajjmk wrote: »
    you dont need quotes for comparative.. :cool:

    yeah i only heard that there now..
    on 2fm about english paper two

    i didnt know that..
    it makes things so much easier!:D

    but i suppose..
    quoting is referring..:confused:


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    luv-eirexx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭luv-eirexx


    king Lear
    come not between the dragon and his wrath

    which of you shall we say doth love us most?

    Poor and naked wretches where so'er you are.

    Who is it who can tell me who I am??

    How sharper than a serpants tooth to have a thankless child.

    all Lear:D


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