This isle is full of noises

[chani]

As William could say, I prefer to think of a poetic tempest rather than to watch the damages caused by the American hurricanes.

So let's The Bard speak.

I chose 2 dreaming quotes from The Tempest:

The famous one from  Act IV, scene i:

 

PROSPERO.These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

And this one that is my favourite, from Act III scene ii:

CALIBAN.

Be not afread: the isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices,
That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd,
I cried to dream again.

Comments

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

Thank you for these wonderful quotes.
Now I'm rather unhappy with my decision to read Macbeth with my students - it made more sense as it is so short and as it is the set text for the first central exams next year, so if anyone fails this year, they won't have to read a different Shakespeare play.