For some reason, I can't help thinking in Hamlet quotes while I'm teaching it. There's just something about that Bard that moves me.
While not the central focus of my piece over at eGO.com, I do mention teaching it and I do use a line from this same speech in the title: "In Apprehension, How Like a God?"
The quote comes from a little bit of Free Verse Hamlet throws out at Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and it goes like this:
"What a piece of worke is a man! how Noble in
Reason? how infinite in faculty? in forme and mouing
how expresse and admirable? in Action, how like an Angel?
in apprehension, how like a God? the beauty of the
world, the Parragon of Animals; and yet to me, what is
this Quintessence of Dust? Man delights not me; no,
nor Woman neither; though by your smiling you seeme
to say so"
(No spelling comments, please, this is how the piece appears in the First Folio)
Who agrees with Hamlet?
Class?
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
It would be hard for me to agree tha man is "the Quintessence of Dust."
ReplyDelete