Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ?

With many siblings at home, performing plays at leisure time is one of the significant pastime in Tagore's childhood, so I read somewhere. Ahh, what is so great about it ? Even introverts like us can have such fun, in a slightly different way ofcourse. It's great fun to read Shakespeare plays aloud. Shakespearian words possess a certain uniqueness of  sound, rhythm and cadence. After reading few of his sonnets now I moved on to his plays. I would like to read them all by the end of this year. There are some books by particular publishing houses that provide detailed analysis and meanings along with the text which made my reading easy-peasy. Here are few interesting lines from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

“ Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,

Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend

More than cool reason ever comprehends.

The lunatic, the lover and the poet

Are of imagination all compact:

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,

That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,

Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:

The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;

And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name. ”

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, 

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." 

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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