Talk:The Phoenix and the Turtle
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shakespeare seriously must have been smoking some crack when he wrote this....honestly!
Understanding the nature of love between two seems an essential quality for anyone wanting to get more understanding out of this poem than the previous entrant.
I always find it fascinating that nobody has tried looking at this poem from an Alchemical/Hermetic point of view. The piece is laden with Alchemical imagery of death and transformation through love - the marriage of male and female and the resultant unity. To me this was Shakespeare's genius. Everything he wrote works on so many extraordinary different levels - this poem is an allegory, a love poem, an elegy, an evocation of the Alchemical process, or just a wonderfully written enigma. Enjoy it as you will. One other thing - its not written in iambic pentameter and has a curiously modern syntax to it. ThePeg 23:39, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
