Summary paragraph on watching the English Department's "merchant of venice"

Mallory Searcy

Extra Credit Assignment

Merchant of Venice Summary Paragraph

November 4, 2012

Dust: A Summary

[I]

 Apologize for bending the rules

(again)

and for writing that paper on

chauvinism.

but since you’ll read dozens of these

summaries

I thought I’d risk bonus points on

Creativity...

The smell of the stage is pine and black curtain dust

It is the smell of hairspray and bobby pins

And words that have been said before,

Written by men.

[Shakespeare says]

Plato is pretty but man is weak

Dust wants to go up.

From dust to dust, It wants to go up.

Bound to flesh and yet it dreams.

[I]

Sitting next to Will Drake, glowing

Waiting for the curtain to go up.

For a merchant, a heiress and a Jew

To speak their turn, take a bow or two

And go up.

And I cannot decide what it means

That my heart aches for immortality,

That I am Yorick, after all-

And yet I dream of wings.

I love this world too much

When studying for British lit or

Remembering my last night’s dream

Or running along the tennis courts it seems

I love this earth too much.

I love the way the hay fields behind

My kitchen window rise and dip into

The sun, how wordsworth writes sonnets

That go bouncing on my tongue,

How a boy I love singings songs

While driving me back home, and at

Home there is a life-giving light.

I love this world with all my might.

But if only I could see these little joys

As little lights that lead to you

But I’d rather love the earth and sky

How small I am, and blind-

When all their greatest splendor

Points to you.

Pilgrim's Progress Awareness Month

Worn out by his swim through a STOP KONY sea The tired Christian marches to the Celestial City With his staff, dyed pink for BREAST CANCER AWARENESS, He hopes and prays that all the poor and powerless Who cry justice tempered with mercy will be rescued And together destroy that despairing cry that ‘the poor will always be with you’ As he stands helpless to offer any solution, except his RED X and a small note that says ‘I would help if I had any idea At all, what I am supposed to do.’