Monday, 10 September 2012

Tracing the Sound (trace 9.1)

Often at the back of a Shakespeare text is a glossary of  words deemed to be a bit difficult to understand or whose meaning may have changed over the years. Here I attempt a sound poem using some of the words from the glossary.

Tempest Sound

abroad abysm accidents
advance against an oracle
anger so distempered

barnacles bark bolt
Caliban candied canker
cast ceres certes charms

deliver demi-puppets
discharge distempered ditty
elements ending entertainment
exeunt exit extirpate

fancy fathom fearful
flote fowl weather  frustrate
got hag-seed heaviness
Indi indulgence Iris issue
Jove justify laughter league
list liver

mid-season mind monster moon-calf
murrain Naples Neptune nymph
observation strange
pageant Paradise party pass of pate
perdition pickle plummet

presently probable professes project
properly Prospero provision
quaint quality quickens rabble

salvage sanctimonious sans save
scape Setebos
still-vexed sulphurous swabber Sycorax

tight and yare
topsail traffic travail Trinculo
trumpery vanity vast of night welkin



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