Anne Hathaway: Poem about Shakespeare:
 Stratford upon Avon is where Shakespeare married his wife Anne. When he was 18
and she was 26.
 Married in 1582.
 Him and his wife did not spend much time together. So, some thought that they only
got married because his wife got pregnant: to save themselves from the face of
society and they did not actually love each-other.
 On his will he says that he plans on giving his second-best bed to his wife. At that
time furniture was very valuable. Specially, beds because you could wow your guests
with it.
 1 perspective is that: the couple bought the first bed together and that the bed
symbolized the couple’s intimate relationship. Even though, it was the second-best
bed it meant more to them.
 The poem is a love poem.
 Deep relationship between two people that is now separated through the death of
one of them.
Analyzing: each line:
 Bed is central: metaphor for their relationship and shows sex is central to their
relationship.
 Gives her a beautiful gift: the first bed they bought together and loved in
 The bed we loved in was spinning world: positive dis-orientation because when you
are in love we all do stupid things: exciting and crazy place. A lot of depth in their
sexual relationship.
 The places discussed in the second line is a comparison between the body parts of
the lovers and the settings of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Shows the comparison
between words /litreture and sex. Also, a lot of commas are used showcasing her
excitement.
 He would dive for pearls: the way he pleasured her. (talks about her clitarous)
 “my lover’s words were like shooting stars… fell like kisses on my…”: deliberately
used to showcase their passion while, discussing his amazing gift of using language.
 Feels a sense of impowerment: she is happy to be his wife. She almost shows off her
lips to other people’s. pride that she is kissed by him. Says these lines in 3 rd person.
 Her body is softer body; shows the physicality to their relationship.
 Echo: symbolizes the wife misses her husband and craves for the sexual relationship
between both of them
 All the punctuations are used to showcases the excitement of the love making and
slows us down to showcase the actually emotional love.
 Dancing is an expression: we like dancing with someone who is a good dancer and
we like it more cause we feel comfortable and have fun. In this case, dancing, having
sex and language are all linked together.
 Parallelism: between his love making skills and his writing skills. Discussed when his
wife says, “he wrote me” almost brought her to life. And a sense she became a
character in one of her plays: I dreamt he had written me. Their love was almost so
perfect that it does not seem real.
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Romance and drama: played by scent and taste: if someone can write both genres
they must have good skills. Therefore, once again he excites her using many
different skills.
In the other bed: “dozed off” showcases the bordem. And makes the sex more
daring because at that time sex was seen as, a taboo. The guests do not have sex as
well as, the couple. Not exciting. Describes it using prose: cause everyone else is
having normal sex not, as exciting as, the couple.
“my living, laughing love”: even though he has gone. Her love will still live on forever.
Her love is so strong for him. She loves him so much, she feels she is able to keep
their love alive until she lives.
Throughout the poem makes a link between shakespeare’s language, work and their
sex.
Structure: commas speed the poem and shows how she is in power. Uses
punctuation to speed the readers and slow them down. She wants us to understand
what he was like and finally gas a platform to discuss them.
Shakespearen sonnet: last two lines is a rhyming couplet. But does not have the
same rhyme scheme as, her a normal shakespearen sonnet. She makes it her own
sonnet. She remembers her husband’s but she does not want to follow his footsteps.
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