[bookshare-discuss] English teachers was On Criticism.
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:29:26 -0700 (PDT)
My 8th-grade English teacher made us memorize certain phrases from Shakespeare
and other poets, like Pope. Was I surprised to learn that "Something's rotten
in the state ofDenmark" came from Hamlet (maybe that phrase isn't said as
often as it was in my day). Or that Fools rush where where angels fear to tread
came from Pope. Or "as the twig is bent the tree's inclined" (something like
that" came from Pope Or that the quality of mercy is not strained came from
Shakespeare.
She also made us memorize the prologue to the Canterbury Tales in the original
language. Thus when I was a freshman in college and we started discussing the
Canterbury Tales and the instructor had us open our books and asked if anyone
could read the prologue, I looked at it and it tripped lightly from my lips.
grin
Cindy
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--- On Tue, 7/21/09, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: On Criticism.
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Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 12:09 PM
Movie makers are likely to give a book a temporary boost in sales, but they
would not be making the movie if the book in question was not already a
continual seller, and I still blame that on the English teachers, or more
specifically the self-appointed mavens of Literature with a capital L who
decide for the English teachers what English teachers are supposed to like. As
for quotes that have become cliches in the general language, now really, do you
really think that anyone is going out to buy a book just because he or she
hears, "All's well that ends well," or, for that matter, even knows that it is
a quote or where it came from?
"If you
tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."
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Hi all,
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Now, Roger, you can't just blame English teachers. You have to blame movie
makers, theater goers, playwrights, novelists who quote authors, folk lore,
and so on and on. Some sayings from literature are part of the language..
That's not just the fault of English teachers. How often have you heard
somebody
say, "All's well that ends well." Or, how often have you heard somebody
exclaim, "Lead on MacDuff!" ( a corruption of the actual quote which is "lay
on MacDuff.") People quote The Bible and any number of other books. How many
young teenagers have read Jane Eyre not because it's been assigned but because
it's a darned good yarn. What about Twain? I can't say anything about some
books which are considered classics. Maybe those have been made so by English
teachers; the Hawthornes and the Silas Marner's and all. But many classics
are because they have stood the test of time.
Ann P.
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