Shakespeare Sonnet 8

For the next few lessons, we are going to be learning poems off by heart. We will have to recite them to the rest of the class and the best ones will go through to the final. I chose this particular poem because I like the fact that it explored Music, Singing and Love and it seems like it has a fascinating and deep meaning – I feel that it stood out from the other Sonnets.

Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly,
Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,
Resembling sire and child and happy mother
Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: ‘thou single wilt prove none.’

The Fault in Our Stars – John Green

I have chosen to read this book because a lot of my friends have read this book and have highly recommended it. It has a very interesting story line and I find the plot very interesting. It is about a girl who is diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 13, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs… for now. 

Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too; post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. And even though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel lives tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumours tenuously kept at bay with a constant chemical assault. 

Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at cancer kid support group, Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and shockingly to her, interested in Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone leaves behind. 

“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.” – I really like John Greens’ use of language because he uses such powerful language and the way he words his phrases make the writing seem so much more interesting. I really look forward to finishing this book. 

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