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The Merchant of Venice would technically be the first ever Shakespeare play I would READ. I remember having to read Romeo and Juliet in high school, but I never read it. I just looked up some help notes online and managed with it.

Why?

First, Yoda-sp33k into I am not. I may be an English teacher, but reading literature has never been one of my favorite things to do. THAT would have to change now, I realized after the first quarter. And now I have to deal with Shakespeare.

Second, Poetry I cannot befriend/ When reading I feel my life at its end. And Shakespeare’s poems, though not necessarily with rhyme and everything, is a whole text of poetry. Allusions here and there, metaphors and hyperboles and more. Poetry would need a deeper, more serious reading. Something I am very lazy to do.

You may be wondering by now… Why the heck did I become an English teacher then?

Unfortunately, it was never a question of preference. It was all about the ease, the ease I have found out to be false. Not all that is gold shimmers, according to Shakespeare, and I thought then that English was gold.

Kidding. I just wanted to avoid Math during the time I was shifting to another program. Nothing to deep-read about that.

*sigh*

HOW can I appreciate Shakespeare?

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