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After reading my recent Shakespeare blog, a friend sent me this bit of YouTube brilliance: 90 seconds that brings together Leonard Berntstein, Billie Holiday and Billy Shakespeare in one fun bit.
Somehow it all reminds me of one of the great truism I learned in a college lit class: You can always recognize Emily Dickinson on a professor's identification test because practically all of her poems can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas."
Try it out:
"Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality."
Here's another one:
"Where ships of purple gently toss
On seas of daffodil,
Fantastic sailors mingle,
And then--the wharf is still."
It's a great way to recognize Dickinson and simultaneously destroy the effect of her poetry. Ah, Emily, you needed a B-side tune to follow up on your hit.
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