“To die, – To sleep, – To sleep! Perchance to dream: – ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there’s the respect That makes calamity of so long life;”
Now, sire”, quod she, “When we flee fro the bemes For Goddess love, as taak som laxative. Up peril of my soule and o lif, I counseille yow the beeste, I wol nat lye,
My loue is now awake out of her dreams (s), and her fayre eyes like stars that dimmed were With darksome cloud, now shew theyr goodly beams More bright then Hesperus his head doth rere
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike
Explain any two of the excerpts of poems given below with reference to their context: (i) Now, sire”, quod she, “When we flee fro the bemesFor Goddess love, as taak som laxative.Up peril of my soule and o lif,I counseille yow the beeste, I wol nat lye,(ii) My loue is now awake out of her dreams (s),and her fayre eyes like stars that dimmed wereWith darksome cloud, now shew theyr goodly beamsMore bright then Hesperus his head doth rere.(iii) I wonder by my troth, what thou, and IDid, till we lov’d? were we not wean’d till then?(iv) Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike
Would you consider Sylvia Plath’s Daddy to be an expression against the voice of patriarchy? Comment critically