04-22-2011, 12:15 PM
i think he did what most poets do/did.
he read avidly and did poems on a similar theme.
the same way you were inspired to do the high windows poem (in the style of larkin)
the same way i did a lewiss carroll jabberwock look alike poem.
the fraud claims of are actually based around a chain of plagiarisms that began with Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe and continued with the forgotten Arthur Brooke's The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet, which was plundered heavily by Shakespeare.
as well as anthony and cleo and hamlet. writers claim there are only five kinds of book a person can write.
so if you a poet writes a tragedy, i'm sure it will match in parts some of shakespeares, same with love stories or plays. most love stories have two lovers, are often kept apart till they either get together or die.
the real problem comes from those who say things like marlow was shakespeare.
shakespeare certainly stole the idea of the sonnet from the italians (and altered it)
i may read a poem about war and decide thats what i'll write about. using the same them can in no way be classed as plagiarism, and yet poems on a theme are often very much alike.
i do think shakespeare stole or used the ideas of others but i don't see what he did as plagiarism.
he read avidly and did poems on a similar theme.
the same way you were inspired to do the high windows poem (in the style of larkin)
the same way i did a lewiss carroll jabberwock look alike poem.
the fraud claims of are actually based around a chain of plagiarisms that began with Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe and continued with the forgotten Arthur Brooke's The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet, which was plundered heavily by Shakespeare.
as well as anthony and cleo and hamlet. writers claim there are only five kinds of book a person can write.
so if you a poet writes a tragedy, i'm sure it will match in parts some of shakespeares, same with love stories or plays. most love stories have two lovers, are often kept apart till they either get together or die.
the real problem comes from those who say things like marlow was shakespeare.
shakespeare certainly stole the idea of the sonnet from the italians (and altered it)
i may read a poem about war and decide thats what i'll write about. using the same them can in no way be classed as plagiarism, and yet poems on a theme are often very much alike.
i do think shakespeare stole or used the ideas of others but i don't see what he did as plagiarism.