{"id":70,"date":"2017-02-01T09:55:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=70"},"modified":"2017-02-01T09:55:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:55:26","slug":"dad-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/romancing-the-sonnet\/dad-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I began reading Shakespeare\u2019s sonnets with Vendler\u2019s thoughts on voice in mind. Vender argues that \u201cthe act\u00a0of the lyric is to offer its reader a script to say\u201d (28). The sonnet becomes inhabited by the reader\/speaker, not overheard. How do we interpret Shakespeare\u2019s tone in this set of sonnets encouraging procreation and posterity, then? Throughout reading these ten sonnets, I imagined Shakespeare winking and nudging at a young man, telling him in myriad ways to get on with it and have children. Yet if we are to use the sonnet as a script, who might take on the \u201cI\u201d of these sonnets? A higher force? A father? Vendler states that \u201cif we are to be made to enter the lyric script, that the voice offered for our use be \u2018believable\u2019 to us, resembling a \u2018real voice\u2019 coming from a \u2018real mind\u2019 like our own\u201d (28). Shakespeare achieves this realness. To me, he reads like an overbearing father cracking dad jokes at an indignant son\u2014 like saying, if you don\u2019t give me grandkids, \u201cmake worms thine heir\u201d (6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began reading Shakespeare\u2019s sonnets with Vendler\u2019s thoughts on voice in mind. Vender argues that \u201cthe act\u00a0of the lyric is to offer its reader a script to say\u201d (28). The sonnet becomes inhabited by the reader\/speaker, not overheard. How do we interpret Shakespeare\u2019s tone in this set of sonnets encouraging procreation and posterity, then? Throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romancing-the-sonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}