Re: Shakespeare?
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Shakespeare?
- From: E* G* <e*@moose.ncia.net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 16:27:40 -0500
>Seems to me that some of the Shakespeare quotes (if not most of them) seem
>to refer to the iris of the eye, not to the flower.....
>
>Best wishes, Bill
Perhaps - but to this English teacher, flowers are more likely
to be written about by Shakespeare...and besides, beauty is in the
`eye' of the beholder...goes for language, too. :-))
Clearly though, Longfellow *was* writing about the flower that
we love.
Ellen Gallagher
e_galla@moose.ncia.net