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A Sonnet for Jack

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Kerry:
Warning! I am a romantic! And an outrageous romantic, at that! So, you must forgive me if I engage in a little overt fantasizing here for a moment! Imagine, if you will, that Jack is a secret sonnet lover (I did warn you!!!) and has secreted in his saddle bags, that glorious summer of 1963, a small volume of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Over the campfire at night, Jack and Ennis languidly read sonnets to one another. Sigh! Sooo romantic! Ennis might very well have read this sonnet to Jack, a man whose “sweet love” he experienced so rapturously, he would not betray it, not even to become a king.

“When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least:
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee,--and then my state
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings'.”

I’ve got more sonnets and more scenarios for Jack and Ennis. Let me know if you enjoyed this and I’ll post them.

LOL

Kerry

mvansand76:

--- Quote from: Kerry on December 13, 2006, 07:30:05 am ---Warning! I am a romantic! And an outrageous romantic, at that!
--- End quote ---

Nothing wrong with that, Kerry, I am hopeless romantic myself and proud of it!  ;D

It's lovely, please feel free to post more!

Kerry:
Here's one of the most famous of Shakespeare's sonnets (from Jack's little book - LOL). I imagine that Ennis may have read this one in his lonely trailer, fighting back a stinging tear, contemplating the "eternal (unfading) summer" that is Jack:

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

Kerry   :'(

Lynne:
These are beautiful, Kerry, and just serve to remind me of the timeless nature of love.  Shakespeare could have written these just for our boys!

I bumped a thread over in Movie Resources about Classical Allusions in BBM and parallels with the Aeneas story.

By all means, keep posting to your romantic heart's content!

Kerry:

--- Quote from: Kerry on December 16, 2006, 08:31:04 am ---Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

--- End quote ---

For me, these beautiful words conjure up two wonderful images from the original story by Annie Proulx:

* "Ennis and Jack, the dogs, horses and mules, a thousand ewes and their lambs flowed up the trail like dirty water through the timber and out above the tree line into the great flowery meadows and the coursing, endless wind."

* "The first snow came early, on August thirteenth, piling up a foot, but was followed by a quick melt - another bigger storm was moving in from the Pacific - and they packed in the game and moved off the mountain with the sheep, stones rolling at their heels, purple cloud crowding in from the west and the metal smell of coming snow pressing them on."

As Lynne said to me recently, it's almost as though these sonnets were written with our boys in mind!  :o

Kerry

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