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King Lear: Poetry: Misspoken Love

  • Jun. 3rd, 2018 at 4:06 PM
Title:  Misspoken Love
Fandom: King Lear
Rating: G
Length: 74
Summary: An acrostic poem

 

Telling her father how great her love was

Regan spoke more of what she thought to gain

Underlying greed overwrote honesty

Tempting her to further exaggerate the claims

Her sister, Goneril, had already made

 

Only Cordelia dared to speak truly of her love

Rejecting the offer to modify her words

 

Daughters three, caught in a power play

Authored by their father, whose actions,

Requiring not the truth but false flattery,

Extinguished the family entirely.

 

 

Comments

clarasteam: Geoffrey, Ellen and Oliver from Slings & Arrows (kissing the skull)
[personal profile] clarasteam wrote:
Jun. 3rd, 2018 08:55 pm (UTC)
I like this take on the prompt - and yay for acrostics! *applauds*
smallhobbit: (butterfly)
[personal profile] smallhobbit wrote:
Jun. 3rd, 2018 09:05 pm (UTC)
Thank you very much. It was interesting to use that form.
mergatrude: a skein, a ball and a swatch of home spun and dyed blue yarn (Default)
[personal profile] mergatrude wrote:
Jun. 3rd, 2018 09:16 pm (UTC)
Very cool.
smallhobbit: (butterfly)
[personal profile] smallhobbit wrote:
Jun. 3rd, 2018 09:45 pm (UTC)
Thank you.

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