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...Playhouse for the next three weeks, the actor performs soliloquies of some 20 characters, from Macbeth to Sir John Falstaff to Juliet Capulet. With parts from The Tempest, a romance, and several history plays, McKellen covers all the theatrical bases from tragedy to low comedy. He even throws in Sonnet XX, for poetic justice...
Consider "Sonnet for a Father and Daughter," remotely Plathlike in subject. This fringe anger piece describes a woman whose father beats her because she has sex, inappropriate behavior for her ostensibly because of her gender. "Papa Don't Preach" said it better--and it rhymed...
...shifted. America wept. From the White House to farmhouses, Americans joined in mourning their common loss. Flags were lowered to half-staff. Makeshift signs appeared in countless cities: WE SALUTE OUR HEROES. GOD BLESS THEM ALL. President Reagan, in a moving broadcast to the nation that afternoon, paraphrased a sonnet written by John Gillespie Magee, a young American airman killed in World War II: "We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face...
...Brazier (1916), his first book of verse, foresaw the Lost Generation: "What life to lead and where to go/ After the War, after the War?" Critics in the early 1920s classed and anthologized Graves as a Georgian poet. In the late 1920s, his close analysis of a Shakespeare sonnet impressed Critic William Empson and led, indirectly, to the textual scrutinies of the New Criticism of the 1940s...
...incarnations of this nonpareil (out of, say, Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene or Robert Stone) have become increasingly antiheroic, their designs questionable and their morality ambiguous. But the trials they must endure, the plot of their quests, remain much the same, as formal and stylized as kabuki or an Elizabethan sonnet...