
Wit
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2001
- 99 min
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(0.00 / 0 votes)metastatic ovarian cancer.
There is no stage five.
And l have to be very tough.
lt appears to be a matter,
as the saying goes...
of life and death.
l know all about life and death.
l am, after all,
a professor of 17th century poetry...
specializing in
the Holy Sonnets of John Donne...
which explore mortality
in greater depth...
than any body of work
in the English language.
And l know for a fact that l am tough.
A demanding professor.
Uncompromising.
Never one to turn from a challenge.
That is why l chose to study John Donne...
while a student
of the great E.M. Ashford.
Oh, yes.
Your essay on Holy Sonnet Vl...
is a melodrama with a veneer
of scholarship unworthy of you...
to say nothing of Donne. Do it again.
Begin with the text, Miss Bearing,
not with a feeling.
''Death be not proud
''Though some have called thee
mighty and dreadful, for
''Thou art not so''
You've missed the point of the poem...
because you've used
an edition of the text...
that is inauthentically punctuated.
-ln the Gardner edition--
-That edition was checked out--
-Miss Bearing?
-Sorry.
You take this too lightly.
This is metaphysical poetry,
not the modern novel.
The standards of scholarship
and critical reading...
which one would apply to any other text
are simply insufficient.
The effort must be total
for the results to be meaningful.
Do you think that the punctuation
of the last line of this sonnet...
is merely an insignificant detail?
a valiant struggle with death...
calling on all the forces
of intellect and drama...
to vanquish the enemy.
But it is ultimately about overcoming
the seemingly insuperable barriers...
separating life, death and eternal life.
ln the edition you chose,
this profoundly simple meaning...
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