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Other over-interpreters include the listeners who-like literary critics dissecting a sonnet-ferret out indirect references in Beatle lyrics and persist in catching a whiff of drugs in such innocuous songs as Yellow Submarine. And there is still the hardy minority that insists on viewing the Beatles as the great put-on of the century...
...firelight in the dead of winter--these are all memorable moments in this collection,and by no means all of them. The short poem "For Theodore Roethke" is a moving testimonial, in which the sea is used in one more imaginative way by Lowell, while the sonnet "1958," an impressionistic series of recollections, seems poor if compared to "Water" the opening poem of For the Union Dead, and a simpler and more effective memory of lost love...
...trouble with Welles's eleventh film is partly economic. For his epic project, Welles could gather only a sonnet-size bankroll of $1,500,000-presumably because few of the pictures he has directed were ever commercial successes. To stretch the dollars, he shot the film in Spain with Spanish extras. The corner cutting shows in nearly every scene. Dubbing has made Shakespeare's words fit badly in the mouths of the supporting players and sometimes of the principals (Sir John Gielgud as Henry IV, Jeanne Moreau as Doll Tearsheet). The background of Avila sits oddly with...
Essayist Charles Lamb wrote: "A pun is a noble thing per se. It fills the mind; it is as perfect as a sonnet, better." Of course, there is another quotation: "Anything awful makes me laugh." And that's Lamb...
...seriocomic man-woman fencing between Stapleton and Guardino is the special delight of the evening. Here are two people ravenously hungry for each other and yet honestly anxious to cherish each other's dignity. In his most direct play, Williams makes a sensuous sonnet out of his central love symbol: "The rose is the heart of the world...